Fast-Track Trade Measure - Prof. Tim Kehoe comments in the Star Tribune

“It is impossible to negotiate a serious trade agreement without it,” said University of Minnesota trade expert Tim Kehoe, who advised the Mexican secretary of trade during NAFTA. “When you negotiate, you give up things to get things.” Letting House and Senate members renegotiate those promises as part of the approval process, said Kehoe, inevitably leads to district-by-district and state-by-state nitpicking that dooms any deal.

Your lifetime earnings are probably determined in your 20s - Prof. Guvenen comments in the Washington Post

"Across the board, the bulk of earnings growth happens during the first decade," wrote economists Fatih Guvenen, Fatih Karahan, Serdar Ozkan and Jae Song, who studied the career paths of about 5 million workers over nearly 40 years.