Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Links:

• Must-Read: Erik Loomis: A Glimpse Into the Black, Shriveled Hearts of the Class Warriors
• Must-Read: Dominick Bartelme and Yuriy Gorodnichenko: Linkages and Economic Development
• Alexis Madrigal: 13 Senate Democrats Roll Over on Trade Deal… for Nothing
• Lance Mannion: When I was your age, there used to be conservatives who were actually conservative.
• Francis Wilkinson: "The president of the United States is a black man. That's not news. But Friday it nonetheless became new..."
• Scott Lemieux: "You can pretty much discern the quality of Trudy Lieberman’s [Harper's Magazine] would-be takedown of the ACA from the ostensible left from the one paragraph that isn’t behind the paywall.... Durrr... had a lot of words in it! We’ll pretend not to know how the contemporary legislative process works! We’ll take Nancy Pelosi egregiously out of context!.... She’s not arguing anything like what it’s being implied she’s arguing..."
• Must-Read: Dani Rodrik: The Future of Economic Transformation in Developing Countries
• Bruce Greenwald: The Death of Manufacturing and the Global Deflation
• Richard J. Evans: The Anatomy of Hell
• Must-Read: Viral V. Acharya and Hassan Naqvi: On Reaching for Yield and the Coexistence of Bubbles and Negative Bubbles
• Peter Superman: Why the GOP Can't Win on Health Care
• Davidy Boddy et al.**: Ten Economic Facts about Financial Well-Being in Retirement

Tweets:

• .@mfcannon: King “establishes a precedent that could let any president modify, amend, or suspend any enacted law at his or her whim.” I assume that quote from you means that you did not read Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion, and do not know what was in it? Jun 26, 2015
• .@AdamPosen @JustinWolfers Rogoff > Barro-Gordon Jun 25, 2015
• RT @ctorresreporter: Mary Daley's labor view is critical to Yellen and Williams. Must read by @jeannasmialek http://t.co/m2QHxznmy1 Jun 25, 2015
• RT @JustinWolfers: Just imagine the state of our economic debate if inflation had exceeded the Fed's 2% target for 37 straight months (and … Jun 25, 2015
• .@RameshPonnuru the problem with "plain meaning" argument was "such exchange" had a plain meaning just like "established by the state" had Jun 25, 2015
• RT @HeerJeet: Forget the slavery and Civil War. Think about what it means that Confederate flag was revived in 1950s & 1960s. Why was flag revived in 1950s and not earlier? Because when Jim Crow was entrenched, flag wasn't need to intimate blacks. The flag was revived in a period when African-Americans in South were getting increasing help from Federal gov't (Brown v.… So the message of the flag was: the feds might try to help you, but remember who is the boss down here. We still rule. Jun 25, 2015
• RT @MuseZack: @tanehisicoates It's like sawing away at a tree for 50 years then having people say "look how easy that was!" when it finally… @tanehisicoates: Nothing "easy" about getting the Confederate flag down. Insults the fuck out of activist who fought for this. Because people have been fighting for this, I suspect, since at least 1962 when the flag went up in Alabama. Jun 25, 2015
• RT @holland_tom: A blacksmith tells me 1 blacksmith working 12 hrs/day wld take 2 1/2 yrs 2 forge the arrow heads fired in the 1st minute a… Jun 24, 2015
• RT @HeerJeet: Now that Jim Webb has the Democratic party confederate flag lovers vote nailed down, I think Hillary Clinton is in deep troub… Jun 24, 2015
• .@Econ_Marshall A question: as I count it, Lee launched 13 attacks in his career. 4 were successful. Is that a genius? Malvern Hill? Pickett’s Charge? Say someone who did not understand that attacking was much more costly in his day than in Napoleon. Lee certainly didn’t care about the health of the people in Pickett’s division… cc: @EdditorRoot @LemieuxLGM Jun 24, 2015
• @Noahpinion what does that article boost? Jun 25, 2015RT * @Noahpinion: @delong Oh, it boosts nothing. It's all about how boosterism is bad and haterism is good. I hated it so much I decided to d… Jun 25, 2015
• @conor64 @ModeledBehavior examples of reversal, people? Jun 24, 2015
• RT @holland_tom: A blacksmith tells me 1 blacksmith working 12 hrs/day wld take 2 1/2 yrs 2 forge the arrow heads fired in the 1st minute a… Jun 24, 2015
• .@Econ_Marshall A question: as I count it, Lee launched 13 attacks in his career. 4 were successful. Is that a genius? Malvern Hill? Pickett’s Charge? Say, rather, someone who did not understand that attacking was much more costly in his day than in Napoleon. Lee certainly didn’t care about the health of the people in Pickett’s division… cc: @EdditorRoot @LemieuxLGM
• .@ghostwritingcow now you must help me convince @KameronHurley that she should write a story of corporate website copy… cc: @MaryRobinette Jun 24, 2015
• RT @eliasisquith: God I love it when Harvard-educated non-Southerners wax rhapsodic about the South http://t.co/5BotsNrsjb Jun 24, 2015
• .@BillKristol “with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in…” For Abraham Lincoln at his 2nd inaugural, “the work we are now in” was conquering Confederacy & smashing its armies. I have no idea whether you are simply too ignorant to know the proper contexts of the quotes you cherry pick, or too cynical to care about the reputation for mendacity you carry around every where you go… And I do not really care cc: @jbouie Jun 23, 2015
• RT @imillhiser: It takes serious chutzpah for Scalia to compare an opinion LIMITING police power to 1984. http://t.co/j80YfQICE3 Jun 22, 2015
• RT @Dr2chase: @zeynep @delong It's a big internet, and Slate is not essential. If they want to bottom-feed I can send my clicks elsewhere. Jun 22, 2015
• RT @zeynep: Ugh. Slate takes its hate-link baiting for clicks strategy to its logical, ugly conclusion. (#NotallSlate but a lot) Jun 22, 2015
• RT @reidepstein: [Scott] Walker on Confederate flag: "The placement of a Confederate flag on the Capitol grounds is a state issue." How can you claim you'll stand up to Russia & Iran if you can't stand up to an army that surrendered 150 years ago? Jun 21, 2015

Links:

• Economista Dentata: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds.... Are we still of any use?"
• Adam Weinstein: Here Are [Bill Keller and] Some [Other] Top New York Times Editors Joking About Mass Killings
• Leah Finnegan: Woman [Alessandra Stanley] Who Cannot Accurately Describe Things to "Report" for NYT
• Must-Read: Tony Atkinson: After Piketty?
• Thomas Piketty: A Practical Vision of a More Equal Society
• Robert Solow and Paul Krugman: Inequality: What Can Be Done?
• Donald Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming: Random Numbers
• Dean Baker: The 2001 Recession Actually Was Really Bad News
• Jared Bernstein: Correcting CBO and touting some fiscal oxygen
• Shachar Kariv: Behavioral Finance Q&A
• Must-Read: Jonathan Ostry et al.: Don’t Sweat the Debt If Fiscal Space Is Ample
• Must-Read: Barry Ritholtz (2011): What Caused the Financial Crisis? The Big Lie Goes Viral