Procrastinating on August 27, 2016
Over at Equitable Growth: Must-Reads:
- A Brief History of (In)equality: No Longer So Fresh at Project Syndicate - Equitable Growth
- Why Do We Talk About "Helicopter Money"? - Equitable Growth
- Matt Markezich: Weekend reading: "Down the Jackson Hole" edition - Equitable Growth
- Nick Bunker: How U.S. consumption behavior changes during recessions - Equitable Growth
- Nick Bunker: Retiring in the United States amid low interest rates - Equitable Growth
- Monetary Policy and Inequality in the United States: We study the effects of monetary policy shocks on—and their historical contribution to—consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980... :
- Mark Thoma: Why We Need a Fiscal Policy Commission: During the Great Recession, monetary policymakers were aggressive and creative....
- Ruixue Jia (2014): The Legacies of Forced Freedom: China's Treaty Ports
- Gabriel Chodorow-Reich and Johannes Wieland: Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles: We study how economies respond to idiosyncratic shocks which induce reallocation of labor across industries....
- Ruddier Bachmann and Eric Sims: Confidence and the Transmission of Government Spending Shocks: In a standard structural VAR, an empirical measure of confidence does not significantly react to spending shocks and output multipliers are around one...
- Marc Andreessen: Software Programs the World: We frequently have delegations from all over the US and the world who come in and ask: “What can we do to have our own Silicon Valley?”...
- Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas et al.: The Greek Crisis: An Autopsy: The Greek crisis is one of the worst in history, even in the context of recorded ‘trifecta’ crises – the combination of a sudden stop with output collapse, a sovereign debt crisis, and a lending boom/bust...
Should Reads:
- Laurence Ball: The Fed and Lehman Brothers
- Chris Dixon: Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology
- Joe Stiglitz: Prizes, Not Patents
- Nick Rowe: Alpha Banks, Beta Banks, and Negative Rates
- Mark Carney: Inflation Report Q&A
- J. Bradford DeLong (2008): The Republic of the Central Banker
And Over Here:
- Must-Read: Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas et al.: The Greek Crisis: An Autopsy
- Must-Read: Olivier Coibion et al.: Monetary Policy and Inequality in the United States
- Must-Read: Marc Andreessen: Software Programs the World
- Weekend Reading; Joe Seligman (1983): Can You Beat the Stock Market?
- For the Weekend...: Guinness: noitulovE (2005):
- Liveblogging the Cold War: August 27, 1946: Intellectual Purge in Leningrad...
- Liveblogging World War I: August 26, 1916: Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace
- Live from Across the Wide Missouri: Is the sprouted quinoa-kamut bread from Ibis Bakery the best loaf of bread in the United States, or just in greater Kansas City?
- Live from TrumpLand: Ian Haney-Lopez: How the GOP became the “White Man’s Party”
- What I See as a Marketing Ploy by the University of Chicago...
- Live from Trumpland: Dara Lind: What the hell is going on with Trump and immigration, explained
- A Brief History of (In)equality: No Longer Fresh at Project Syndicate
- Must-Read: Ruddier Bachmann and Eric Sims: Confidence and the Transmission of Government Spending Shocks
- Why Do We Talk About Helicopter Money?
- Live from Trumpland: Immigration was always the explosive wedge that will destroy the GOP
- Must-Read: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich and Johannes Wieland: Secular Labor Reallocation and Business Cycles
- Live from the Journamalists' Self-Made Gehenna: Your daily reminder that there is something morally wrong with you if you pay money to the Washington Post for any purpose whatsoever
- Live from Trumpland: Leigh Ann Caldwell and Benjy Sarlin: What Will Happen to the GOP after Trump
- Liveblogging History: August 25, 1916: National Park Service
- Must-Read: Ruixue Jia (2014): The Legacies of Forced Freedom: China's Treaty Ports
- Comment of the Day: Altoid: Weekend Reading: Matthew Yglesias: Donald Trump a Media Celebrity, Not a Real Businessman
- Live from BushLand: Does Colin Powell want to have a reputation?
- Must-Read: Mark Thoma looks back and marvels at his naivete with respect to macroeconomic policy: Mark Thoma: Why We Need a Fiscal Policy Commission
- Liveblogging the American Revolution: August 24, 1778: General Orders,
- Liveblogging the Cold War: August 23, 1946: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Liveblogging the American Revolution: August 22, 1778: Battle of Rhode Island
- Liveblogging the Cold War: August 21, 1946: The Marshall Mission to China
- Live from Trumpland: Josh Marshall: Turtles and BS All The Way Down
Might Like to Read:
- David Atkins: How Much Bad Press Can Trump’s Campaign Take Before It Implodes?: He’s only down by 5 points nationally... terrifying... but because it means there’s almost no bad press a Republican could possibly receive to allow them to lose by a landslide. Conservative voters are so locked into their hatred of anything “liberal” that even a man as openly vile and dangerous as Trump will probably manage to at least make it close on election day.
- P.Z. Myers: University of Chicago dean declares war on student autonomy
- Bonnie Kavoussi: Two Classical Models of Leadership: Achilles/Alexander and Aeneas/Augustus
- Jamelle Bouie: Trump’s Vision of Black America Is a White Supremacist Fantasy: And his outreach to black voters is a dog whistle for racists...
- Brian Resnick: Astronomers just found a new planet that could potentially support life--and it's really, really close: Astronomers have discovered a new, potentially habitable planet circling Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our own. This is likely the nearest planet outside our solar system that we’ll ever find. What’s more, it should, in theory, be warm enough for liquid water--and warm enough for life...
- Alex Beggs: 5 Chefs on How They'd Doctor Up Frozen Pizza
- Why we need better re-employment policies for formerly incarcerated African American men :
Perhaps Worth Reading...