Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Should Reads:

• David Beckworth: Macro and Other Market Musings: The United States as a Banker to the World
• Mark Thoma: Economic Models Must Account for 'Who Has the Power'
• Jared Bernstein: The Fed’s Pause and the Dollar’s Retreat
• Guglielmo Barone and Sauro Mocetti: What’s your (sur)name? Intergenerational mobility over six centuries
• Tony Haile: The Facebook Papers: Part 1: The great unbundling | The user experience revolt

And Over Here:

• Live from the New York Times Journamalists' Self-Made Gehenna: Arthur Goldhammer: Metamorphosis
• Must-Read: Ben Thompson: Apple in China
• Today's Economic History: John Maynard Keynes (1919): To Jan Smuts: 'Ruthless Truth-Telling'
• Live from Ravenna: May I say that someday I want to see, with my own eyes, the mosaics of San Vitale?
• Must-Read: Simon Wren-Lewis: A General Theory of Austerity
• Live from the New York Times's Journalists Self-Made Gehenna:: Yes. Reading The New York Times is like drinking bilgewater: why do you ask? Steve M.: New York Times Stenographers Ashley Parker and Jonathan Martin on Yet Another Mendacious Rampage...
• Must-Read: Martin Wolf has talked so much sense so eloquently since 2007 that I forget that he is, at bottom... a Tory--not, mind you, that there is anything necessarily wrong with that: Martin Wolf: Failing Elites Are to Blame for Unleashing Donald Trump

Might Like to Read:

• Liz Bourke: “In Action How Like an Angel, in Apprehension How Like a God!” Ada Palmer’s Too Like The Lightning
• Gideon Rachman: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and the Lure of the Strongman
• Lucas Mattney: Siri-creator shows off first public demo of Viv, ‘the intelligent interface for everything’
• Andrew Prokop: Why Democrats increasingly think Donald Trump can deliver them a Senate landslide

Worth Reading