Links for December 2, 2015

• Following the Money Becomes Even More Difficult:  NMPolitics.Net

• New Mexico is One of the Nation's High Crime States:  how's that for helping the economy?  Mark Bentley's Inside Politics

• Forget Wall Street:  Here's an idea to help U.S. Banks:  CBS News 
• The False Promise of Meritocracy:  Marianne Cooper, The Atlantic
• Carbon and Inequality:  from Kyoto to Paris:  Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty, Vox
• An Introduction to the Geography of Student Debt:  Marshall Steinbaum and Kavya Vaghul, Equitable Growth