Noted for Your Nighttime Procrastination for March 17, 2015
Must- and Shall-Reads:
- Today's Must-Must-Read: : "Riksbank Deputy Governor Jansson Again Tries to Defend the Indefensible,
- Nighttime Must-Read: : European Central Bank Quantitative Easing: The Detailed Manual
- Today's Must-Must-Read: : What People Talk About When They Talk About Zero Interest Rates
- : If Economists Were Right, You Would Have a Raise by Now
- : "The way to deal with secular stagnation... is to raise the long-run neutral interest rate above zero. If we can do this via structural reform and/or self-financing infrastructure investment, fine. If not, raise the inflation target.... If you’re really worried about secular stagnation, you should advocate a combination of a raised inflation target and a burst of fiscal stimulus to help the central bank get there..."
- Afternoon Must-Read: : The U.K. vs. the U.S. Minimum-Wage Debate
- : Blog Fight! War Of Words Breaks Out In A Multi-Trillion Dollar Industry
- Afternoon Must-Read: : Poor Stories from [David] Brooks and [Ross] Douthat
- : The End of "Patient" and Questions for Yellen
- Nighttime Must-Read: : One Slack Measure to Rule Them All?
- Nighttime Must-Read: : Eurozone Fiscal Policy
- Lunchtime Must-Read: **: A Whiff of Stagflation
Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog
- Today's Must-Must-Read: Lars E.O. Svennson: Riksbank Deputy Governor Jansson Again Tries to Defend the Indefensible...
- Today's Must-Must-Read: Matt O'Brien: What People Talk About When They Talk About Zero Interest Rates
- Marking-One's-Beliefs-to-Market Should Be a Collective Endeavor...: Focus
- Must-Read: Helaine Olen: Poor Stories from [David] Brooks and [Ross] Douthat
- Must-Read: Paul Krugman (2005): A Whiff of Stagflation
- Must-Read: Simon Wren-Lewis: Eurozone Fiscal Policy
- Must-Read: Jared Bernstein: The U.K. vs. the U.S. Minimum-Wage Debate: ""
- Must-Read: Grégory Claeys et al.: European Central Bank Quantitative Easing: The Detailed Manual
- :One Slack Measure to Rule Them All?
- : The high economic costs of incarceration
- Duncan Wheldon Looks at the Eurozone Outlook
- : Entrepreneurialism and access to capital for women and minorities: ""
Plus:
And Over Here:
- April Fools' Festival: Day VIII Mickey Kaus
- Should Quad Lattes Be a Thing?
- Hoisted from Others' Archives: James Kwak: Who’s a Freeloader?
- Liveblogging World War II: March 17, 1945: Eleanor Roosevelt
- April Fools' Festival: March 17, 2015
- Marking-One's-Beliefs-to-Market Should Be a Collective Endeavor...: Focus
- Time for a Rant!: Why Oh Why Cannot We Have Better Economists?
- April Fools' Festival Day VI: Our Fool Today Is David Brooks
- Liveblogging the American Revolution: March 16, 1777: Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams
- “An Infinite Regress. Of Dumb”: More Reflections on “Market Efficiency”
- What Is the Matter with Wall Street?
Should Be Aware of:
- : U.S. Macro Outlook: A Long Expansion
- : Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture-Funded Media Startup
- : "When aliens didn’t arrive in spaceships to save Keech and her followers on Dec. 21, 1954, as she predicted, it did not, at least as far as Keech’s followers were concerned, reveal her as a fraud.... When Congress debated and passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010, opponents were nearly unified in offering grim Keech-like predictions.... The dour prognostications are starting to look like Keech's flying saucers.... [But] that won't matter, and... Americans can expect a continued drumbeat of doom, even as the prophecies fail..."
- : I, for One, Welcome Our New Newsletter and Podcast Overlords
