• February jobs day roundup: listing some main takeaways, and delving deeper into the report to look at labor force participation and weekly earnings.
• Highlighting an impressive piece of journalism from Mike Fletcher at the WaPo about the differences in life expectancy between older persons of widely different economic means.
• Looking at who benefits from the climbing US stock market (spoiler: those at the very top).
• Pointing out that the safety net caught a lot of children in the recent Great Recession.
• Recapping my Senate testimony on reducing wasteful spending (of a particular sort) by reforming tax expenditures.
• Featuring a CBO graph on the deficit’s impact on growth in the near vs. long term.
• Pushing back against the tyranny of the average:  on the misleading use of the historical average of revenues and outlays as shares of GDP.

Music:  an unusual performance of a piano concerto for this week’s Friday Musical Interlude, and a rare Saturday Musical Interlude featuring a catchy rap song with a message I like.

Bonus: a star-struck encounter with the supremely awesome Carole King.