Daily Reads

-Lifetime Earnings in the United States over Six Decades

The lifetime earnings of the median male worker declined by at least 10 percent from the 1967 cohort to the 1983 cohort. Further, more than three-quarters of the distribution of men experienced no rise in their lifetime earnings across these cohorts.

-Why You Should Wait Out the Wild Housing Market — crazy prices, but maybe not a bubble. Some interesting points in here.

-ending with something on the lighter side: How to Make Sense of Scents — this is in a way the companion piece to the story about perfumes I posted the other day.

Carsten Schmidt @carstens