Links for the Week of February 21, 2016
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- : Your Landlord Is a Drag on Growth
- : Ronnie O'Sullivan & the Limits of Incentives
- : Splits in the Keynesian camp: a Galilean Dialogue
Most-Recent Links:
MOAR Must-Reads:
- : What Have We Learned since 2008?
- : Living with Monetary Impotence
- : The Bank of Japan Is Moving Too Slowly in the Right Direction
- : The China Delusion
- : What We've Learned About Unconventional Monetary Policy
- : Competitive Devaluation Plus Monetary Expansion Does Create a Free Lunch
- : Comment on "The Euro Area Crisis Five Years After the Original Sin"
- : FOMC Minutes and More
- : Summing Up Scalia
- : Bonds on the Run
- : Rubio Tax Cut Got Bigger and Bigger
- : Feb. 11 Newsmaker Panel Asserts that the Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership's ISDS Provision Will Undermine U.S. Courts and Legislative Bodies
- (2014): Sketches of a History of Skepticism, Part I: Classical Eudaimonia
- : Facebook’s Algorithms Are Not Your Friend
- : Eight Ways to Improve the Fed's Accountability
- : ‘Lehman Brothers: A Crisis of Value’ by Oonagh McDonald
- sends us to Gavyn Davies, Lael Briainard from last October, and himself from a year ago
MOAR Links:
- : Improving Conventional Unconventional Policy
- : Schooling and Balanced Growth
- (2012): Incoherence of Antonin Scalia
- : Washington Should Prepare for Saudi Arabia's Collapse
- : Why Sexism at the Office Makes Women Love Hillary Clinton
- : Rubio Surges Back to Electrify South Carolina
- : THE POTATO APOCALYPSE
- : Are Asset Managers Vulnerable to Fire Sales?
- : Break up big banks? Why size isn't the real issue
- : The Base Doesn't Care About Originalism: "Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), a supporter of [Jeb] Bush, said of Trump: ‘This man accused George W. Bush of being a liar and suggested he should be impeached.... The market in the Republican primary for people who believe that Putin’s a good guy and W. is a liar is pretty damn small.’ It takes a certain kind of determined myopia not to see in retrospect that George W. Bush was a liar of immense proportions..."
- : How Did Takahashi Korekiyo Rescue Japan from the Great Depression?
- : Through the past, darkly, for Europe’s central bankers: "Today’s economic situation in Europe has parallels with the 1930s and Hitler’s speedy recovery..."
- : From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister
- : Trump Hits Back at Bush on Eminent Domain: His Family Used It for the Stadium in Texas
- : Global Growth Now Fraying at the Edges
- : Excerpt: 'Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right'
- : The AFL-CIO, Black Lives Matter, and Police Unions
- : The Story of Eric Harwood
- : 13 Awesome Wall Street Movies
- : Did Takahashi Korekiyo Rescue Japan from the Great Depression?
- : The Incoherence of Antonin Scalia
- : Against Ideology
- : #FlintWaterCrisis: "Gov, Snyder releases new emails & things are looking VERY bad for him and his administration..."
- Health Affairs Blog
- : "Trump's saying something that needs to be said: ‘They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction.... George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes. But that one was a beauty. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East.... How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center came down? I lost hundreds of friends’"
- : The Sanders Campaign Thinks It Can Give Us 5 Percent Economic Growth. It’s Deluded
- : Socrates as Mary Sue
- : Walmart Makes Small But Important Change To How It Schedules Workers
- : Donald Trump: The Real Heir to George W. Bush
- : "The cost curve is bending. If prices can grow at roughly the rate of inflation and not even nominal GDP quite a few long term federal financing problems go from dire to manageable..."
- : Scalia Links: "Scalia meets St. Peter.... Let the trooferism commence! In fairness, all of these theories are more plausible than Scalia’s dissent in King v. Burwell..."
- : The Fed shouldn’t accept the “new normal” without a fight
- : International business cycle transmission: Firm-level evidence
- : Are the Saudis Thinking Clearly? And Should We?
