Suggested Links:

• Angus Deaton on the Under-Discussed Driver of Inequality in America:  "It's easier for Rent-Seekers to Affect Policy Here Than in Much of Europe":  Pro-Market

• Stocks have gone from overvalued to undervalued:  Spencer England, Angry Bear 

• Democrats Have Gotten Way More Liberal on Identity Issues:  FiveThirtyEight 

• Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap:  Sarah Cohodes, The Future of Children

Each of these is well worth a read; all are brief.  Angus Deaton is a Nobel Prize winning economist who argues that the political power of corporations has rigged the system in favor of the top 1%.  Unlike Europe, there are no longer any countervailing powers, such a labor unions or political parties, that can restrain the rigging.  FiveThirtyEight explains from polling data why Democrats continue to push identity issues.  Sarah Cohodes believes the experimentation allowed in charter schools is teaching us how to close achievement gaps in minority populations, even though as a whole charter schools perform no better than public schools.