Thursday assorted links

1.”Thomas Bagger, German diplomat and advisor to the federal president, once noted, “The end of history was an American idea, but it was a German reality.”  Link here.

2. For all the mockery, we are almost at Dow 36,000.

3. William Shatner at 90.

4. “Using event study analysis of recent minimum wage increases, we find that these changes do not affect the likelihood of searching, but do lead to large yet very transitory spikes in search effort by individuals already looking for work.”  Link here.

5. All the more reason to call it “The Norwegian Century.”