Vaguely interesting (Oct 22)

(1)  “The inflation adjusted weekly income of the typical full-time American worker hit an all-time high in the third quarter of 2016.”

(2)  “[This] year’s 20 executions will be the fewest since 1991, when 14 were recorded.  … Just five states – Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri and Texas – account for [all the] executions this year.”

(3)  “Black Americans are disadvantaged compared to whites—even when they have higher incomes and more education.”

(4)  “But there are not one, but two big trends in liberal economic thinking. … Center-left ideas have tons of very careful academic empirical work behind them, while those wishing to tear up economics and start over are still working mostly with broad analogies.”

(5)  “A survey [of] corporate directors found that just 24 percent of the male respondents believed board diversity improves corporate performance, while an overwhelming 89 percent of female directors believe it does.”