Procrastinating on September 12, 2016
Over at Equitable Growth: Must-Reads:
- Mark Thoma: Diverting Attention From the Real Issues: Immigration is not the problem.... Immigrants do not lower the employment prospects for natives...
- Paul Krugman: Tobin Was Right: Tobin’s 1972 presidential address to the American Economic Association...
- Milton Friedman (1976): Inflation and Unemployment: A major factor in some countries and a contributing factor in others may be that they are in a transitional period...
- The Education of David Stockman: As budget director, [Stockman] intended to proceed against many of the programs... (1981):
- Wealth Inequality and Monetary Policy: Explor[ing] the recent evolution of household wealth inequality in advanced economies by looking at valuation effects on household assets and liabilities.... :
- Mark Thoma: Labor Compensation and Labor Productivity: Just a quick reminder...
- Nick Bunker: Weekend reading: “Read this in 3D” edition - Equitable Growth
- Nick Bunker: How intensely are U.S. employers looking for workers? - Equitable Growth
Should Reads:
- Holman Jenkins: Jack Bogle: The Undisputed Champion of the Long Run: Vanguard’s founder on 40 years of indexing success and how to invest in today’s ‘extremely risky world.’
- Emmanuel Ocbazghi and Josh Barro: Paul Krugman: There is an argument for doubling the Fed’s inflation target
- Noah Smith: Is Firefly Overrated?
- Economist: More Spend, Less Thrift: German budget surpluses are bad for the global economy
- IQ Books
- Left of Center: Joy Reid and Kurt Eichenwald Flatten Lying Trump Surrogate David Malpass
- Eliot Peper: The Technological Trends That Will Shape the Next 30 Years: An interview with Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine and author of The Inevitable.
- Gender Matters
- Julian Kozlowski et al.: The origin of secular stagnation
And Over Here:
- Must-Read: Mark Thoma: Labor Compensation and Labor Productivity
- Links for the Week of September 11, 2016
- Monday Smackdown: Sam Tanenhaus Department
- Liveblogging Postwar: September 12, 1946: Henry Wallace
- Liveblogging Postwar: September 11, 1946: The Truculent Turtle
- Weekend Reading: Paul Krugman (2011): Mr. Keynes and the Moderns
- 911: Never Forget
- Live from George W. Bush's Self-Made Gehenna (March 2002): President Bush Holds Press Conference
- Comment of the Day: Maynard Handley: In reply to Tracy Lightcap...
- Must Read: Dietrich Domanski et al.: Wealth Inequality and Monetary Policy
- Must-Read: William Grieder (1981): The Education of David Stockman
- Weekend Reading: CIA Director John Brennan Was Against Waterboarding But Didn't Tell Anyone
- Live from the Journamalists' Self-Made Gehenna: Josh Marshall: You Failed, Chumps
- Asian Ideographic Vocabulary Lesson...
- Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Tobin Was Right
- Must-Read: Mark Thoma: Diverting Attention From the Real Issues
- Live from Trumpland: David Atkins: David Brooks’ Realignment Won’t Happen
- Liveblogging Postwar: September 10, 1946: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Liveblogging Postwar: September 9, 1946: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Liveblogging the American Revolution: September 8, 1778: General Orders,
- Liveblogging the American Revolution: September 7, 1778: Siege of Boonesborough
- Liveblogging Postwar: September 6, 1946: James Byrnes: Restatement of Policy on Germany.
- Liveblogging Postwar: September 5, 1946: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Liveblogging the American Revolution: September 4, 1778: Grey's Raid
- Liveblogging Postwar: September 3, 1946: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Liveblogging World War I: September 2, 1916: Zeppelins
- Liveblogging World War I: September 1, 1916: Roumania
- Weekend Reading: The Court Historian: The Massacre of the House and Servants of David
- Files Related to the Hutchins-Brookings Productivity Festival
- Slow Growth in Productivity: What Do We Know About "Why?" and "What Is To Be Done?"—Long
- For the Weekend...: The Philosopher's Drinking Song
Might Like to Read:
- John W. Trimmer (1993): How to Avoid Huge Ships
- Japanese to English: Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors quote: "義は山嶽より重く死は鴻毛より軽しと心得よ" :: "Duty is heavier than a mountain; death is lighter than a feather"
- Spencer Ackerman: Inside the fight to reveal the CIA's torture secrets: The first part of the inside story of the Senate investigation into torture, the crisis with the CIA it spurred and the man whose life would never be the same
Perhaps Worth Reading...