Procrastinating on November 16, 2016
Over at Equitable Growth: Must- and Should-Reads:
- Note to Self: I Still Fail to Understand Ken Rogoff's Medium-Long Term Macroeconomic Optimism... - Equitable Growth
- Mehreen Khan: Carney: world at risk of low rate ‘trap’ for decades: "The world economy risks being stuck in a low interest rate “trap” for decades without efforts to boost growth through structural reforms... (W)
- Noah Smith: Peak Finance Looks Like It's Over: "How much of the financial industry will soon be obsolete?... (W)
- Jared Bernstein and Ben Spielberg: Preparing for the Next Recession: Lessons from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: "Moving forward... a stronger set of automatic stabilizers would help... (W)
- Martin Wolf: Donald Trump’s False Promises: "Fiscal loosening with monetary tightening would mean a stronger dollar and a rising current account deficit... (W)
Interesting Reads:
- Richard Baldwin: The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
- PIIE: The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
- Paul Krugman: The Gridlock Economy
- Eric Rauchway: On the national and international causes of Trumpism
And Over Here:
- John Podesta: @johnpodesta: "GOP leaders chose to ignore... the true Donald Trump. They propped him up, now they own it." (Basic Competence Is Undervalued Department)
- Must-Read: Anything wrong with this analysis? I cannot see anything: Martin Wolf: Donald Trump’s False Promises: "Fiscal loosening with monetary tightening would mean a stronger dollar and a rising current account deficit...
- Note to Self: I Still Fail to Understand Ken Rogoff's Medium-Long Term Macroeconomic Optimism...
- Must-Read: I dissent from one of Jared and Ben's points here: Jared Bernstein and Ben Spielberg: Preparing for the Next Recession: Lessons from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: "Moving forward... a stronger set of automatic stabilizers would help...
- Should-Read: Noah Smith: Peak Finance Looks Like It's Over: "How much of the financial industry will soon be obsolete?...
- Should-Read: Mehreen Khan: Carney: world at risk of low rate ‘trap’ for decades: "The world economy risks being stuck in a low interest rate “trap” for decades without efforts to boost growth through structural reforms...
You Might Look at:
- Cato and Varro: Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro
- Julian Schwinger: Einstein's Legacy: The Unity of Space and Time: http://amzn.to/2fRbOC5
- Charles Torre: The Kepler Problem: "I won’t ask you to check that this is a Lagrangian symmetry. Try it only if you feel strong..."
- Twitter: Advanced Muting Options
Perhaps Worth Reading...