Noted for Your Morning Procrastination for April 1, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- Afternoon Must-Read: Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies :
- Lunchtime Must-Read: Barney Frank Explains the Financial Crisis :
- Today's Must-Must-Read: The Missing Deflation and the Argument for a Higher Inflation Target :
- Labor Market Slack and Monetary Policy :
- Response to Robert Caro's The Power Broker :
- Monetary Policy for a High-Pressure Economy :
- Spurious Volatility in Historical Unemployment Data (1986):
Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog
- Department of "Huh?!": Martin Feldstein and the Interest Rate Path Edition - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
- The future of the global savings glut - Washington Center for Equitable Growth :
- How much does job search matter for job switching? - Washington Center for Equitable Growth :
Plus:
And Over Here:
- April Fools' Festival Final Day: A Change of Pace (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)
- Liveblogging World War I: April 1, 1915: The Birth of the Fighter Plane (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)
- Links and Tweets: March 2015 (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)
- Live from Pret-a-Manger: OK. Who in Washington DC these days rates an escort of two police cars, four black Chevy suburban SUVs, and a Cadillac Escalade SUV?
- April Fools' Festival Day XX: "Smoking Doesn't Kill" and Other Op-Eds from Indiana Governor Mike Pence (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)
- Live from California Pizza Kitchen: With the battery on my Macbook Air now down to two hours...
- Liveblogging History: March 31, 1865: Dinwiddie Courthouse and Five Forks (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)
- April Fools' Festival: Day XIX: Clifford Asness Smackdown (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)
- (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- "You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save you much time. You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy..." :
- Racism and Science Fiction (1998):