Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Daniel Davies: "To solve Britain's housing crisis we don't need to build more houses, we need to fix our rental laws..."
• Jared Bernstein: Fed Fight!
• Vasco Cúrdia: Why So Slow? A Gradual Return for Interest Rates
• Ben Thompson: "Venture capitalists are arbitrageurs... [with] more information than those with the capital... more capital than those with information... exploiting the mismatch.... This is not a bad thing! Our entire economy is predicated on middlemen... an entire supply chain of middlemen that results in $4 toast from wheat that costs $4/bushel..."
• Noah Smith: It Isn't Just Asian Immigrants Who Thrive in the U.S.
• Douglas Staiger, James H. Stock, and Mark W. Watson (1997): How Precise Are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment?

Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog

• Michael Ettlinger: Conventional, one-dimensional policies will not reverse U.S. income inequality growth
• Nick Bunker: The measured Angus Deaton wins the Nobel Prize
• The Extremely-Sharp Tim Duy Sees the Fed Moving Away from Contractionary Policy
• Nick Bunker: Minimum wage workers and the collapse of the job ladder

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