Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Short:

Chris Blattman:U Is it nuts to give money to the poor? | Cardiff Garcia: White House wants pushover bubble-watching Fed chair who would be fun to have a beer with during a crisis | *Adam Ozimek: Should We Regulate Our Way To Innovation? | Spencer Ackerman et al.: Snowden NSA files: US and UK at odds over security tactics as row escalates | Aaron Carroll: Can we all get a little bit more knowledgeable about Obamacare? President Bush would not have been hurt by the ACA | Derek Thompson: Two Graphs Showing, Decisively, That Obamacare Is Not Creating a Permanent Part-Time America |

Long:

Richard Hornbeck and Suresh Naidu: When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South | Simon Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajsek: The Impact of the Federal Reserve's Large-Scale Asset Purchase Programs on Corporate Credit Risk |

• EPI to Hold Media Teleconference on Wages and the State of the U.S. Labor Market
• Roger Altman: Why the Fed needs Summers’ firefighting skills: #TeamLarry
• Ryan Avent: The global economy: The emerging-market squeeze
• Lindsay Beyerstein: Lizards Save California from Lyme Disease