The issue of the "return" on a college education came up in discussion. Here's a look at it.

"In any event, if we index the wage growth of college grads with the cost of attending college since 2001, the picture that emerges is not very pretty.":

Skip the first market summary to get to the student loan part:

https://macro-man.blogspot.in/2016/09/the-student-loan-debacle.html?m=1

Douglass paper prompt

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7l8we3xyyrk2czy/Douglass%20paper%20prompt.pdf?dl=0

Do me a quick favor?

Can anyone let me know if Android and Windows open this and it looks ok?

https://www.icloud.com/pages/0JvYsV8m1bhmAh_B222evcO_w#Syllabus

Has a noticeable bias in approach, but interesting way of framing global trade issues

You can jump the paywall by googling the title:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-risks-of-trading-abroad-from-mesopotamia-to-apple-1473434334

That mosquito vector question

You can jump the Journal's paywall (with a monthly limit, I think?) by typing the title of the article into Google.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/mosquitoes-are-deadly-so-why-not-kill-them-all-1472827158

The legacy of slavery in Brazil

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21706510-american-thinking-about-race-starting-influence-brazil-country-whose-population

Saw this on a history listserv with the title "We are so f**ked"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/02/meet-the-parents-who-wont-let-their-children-study-literature/?utm_term=.25286e548066