Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Should Reads:

• Simon Wren-Lewis (2013): Ken Rogoff on UK austerity
• Ken Rogoff (2013): Britain should not take its credit status for granted
• Paul Krugman (2013): Phantom Crises
• 2013: Kenneth Rogoff's Hooverismo…
• Matthew Klein (2013): Ken Rogoff's Latest Bad Argument for Austerity
• Paul Krugman (2008): The Rogoff doctrine
• Stephanie Lo and Ken Rogoff (2015): Secular stagnation, debt overhang and other rationales for sluggish growth, six years on

And Over Here:

• A Republic, If You Can Keep It...
• Monday Smackdown: Cosma Shalizi vs. the Econometricians!
• DeLong Smackdown Watch: Simon Wren-Lewis and Ann Pettifor Take Their Whacks
• Comment of the Day: Rakesh Bhandari: Marx's Half-Baked Crisis Theory and His Theories of Surplus Value, Chapter 17: Hoisted from the Archives from Five Years Ago: "To compensate for a falling rate of profit, capitalists must raise the level of investment...
• Election Day
• Links for the Week of November 6, 2016
• On the Excellences of Nate Silver and http://fivethirtyeight.com
• Must-Read: Richard Mayhew: County Level Inequities in the ACA: "Health wonks like to say that the ACA is not a single program but fifty-one programs... works well in some states (California) and poorly in others (Arizona) and muddles through in most...
• Ken Rogoff's Hooverismo...: Hoisted from the Archives from Three Years Ago
• Must-Read: Robert Waldmann: Repairing Macroeconomics: "A good first step is to go back to the old Keynesian research program... and pick up where Tobin, Solow and Samuelson left off...
• Must-Read: FT: The Prevailing Case for Caution by Central Banks: "The US Federal Reserve signalled a high likelihood that interest rates will be raised when it meets next in December...
• Why Steve Schale is optimistic about Florida: But does this make sense? (Live from Deep in the Weeds of the Everglades): Steve Schale: It is Saturday--GO WATCH FOOTBALL!: "I asked some data people a question...
• Trump Sunday-Monday Travel Schedule: WTF?!
• Paul Ryan's Choice
• Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders & Pharrell Williams Rally in Raleigh, NC
• Matthew Yglesias: @mattyglesias: "This is absolutely correct. But the corollary is GOP elected officials' failure of character has been massive."
• People like Ari Fleischer are why the Republicans are in their self-made Trump hell: and have dragged the rest of us in here with them: Kyle Cheney: @kyledcheney: "Five weeks ago, Ari was featured in a Trump press release announcing the "Bush Alumni Coalition" for Trump." Katie Glueck: _@katieglueck: ".@arifleischer, one of the most prominent Bush admin alums to back Trump, has now decided he can't vote for him..." Kaili Joy Gray: @KailiJoy: "TLDR Ari Fleischer: I'm not voting for president because I'm a coward who doesn't want to save this country"
• Let Us Dispel with the Fictions That Trump Has Nothing to Do with Conservatism and That Trump's Republican Party Is Not an Existential Threat to America
• Julian Sanchez: @normative: He's actually half Elder God...
• Walter Pincus: Fact Checking: “It’s up to the Democrats to catch people [who tell falsehoods, not us. We would quote both sides...” (Live from the Journamalists' Self-Made Hell)
• Early November 2012: Nooners!!: Peggy Noonan Breaks into the... What? Your Guess Is as Good as Mine...
• There is no silver lining from Donald Trump's winning the Republican primaries, or for 99% of the Republican Party's falling in line behind them. (Live from the Republicans' Self-Made Trump Hell)
• Weekend Reading: Jonathan Chait: Trump or the Republic?
• Tom Levenson: Stamina! (And Tactical Thinking): "There’s quite a contrast. The Republican ticket lists only what the two principals are doing... (Live from Las Vegas and Omaha)
• Josh Barro: Democrats' treatment of Mitt Romney was justified: "Anti-Trump conservatives have had the clarity to see that Donald Trump would make a very bad president, and to break with their team, often at some personal cost. I admire this... (Live from the Republicans' Self-Made Trump Hell)
• Time to Just Go with @ForecasterEnten's Twitter Timeline Until Tuesday Evening...
• Kenneth Rogoff: The Fear Factor in Global Markets: "Some say that governments did not do enough to stoke demand.... That is true... [but] not the whole story...
• Note to Self: Inadequate Musings on Elements of Rogoff's Debt Supercycle Hypothesis
• Must-Read: Paul Krugman (2008): The Rogoff Doctrine: "Ken Rogoff is one of the world’s best macroeconomists. But...
• Must-Read: Paul Krugman (2013): Phantom Crises: "Simon Wren-Lewis is puzzled by a Ken Rogoff column that sorta-kinda defends Cameron’s austerity policies...
• Jonathan Chait: How Donald Trump Outsmarted George Will: "Conservative intellectuals took it as a given that Trump was alien to conservatism... (Live from the Republicans' Self-Made Trump Hell)
• Trumpist Peter Thiel: Against Women's Suffrage--But Not so Much Against Apartheit
• Must-Read: John Holbo: Corey Robin’s Reactionary Mind in the New Yorker: "What Matt Feeney actually says...
• Mean Reversion Toward Stable Voting Intentions in Poll Aggregates...
• Paul Krugman: @paulkrugman: "Profiles in no courage... Live from the Republicans' Self-Made Hell)
• Claire McCaskill: 'Majority' Of Senate Republicans Won't Vote Trump: "I believe, and I'm basing this on some of the things my colleagues have said to me... (Live from the Republicans Self-Made Trump Hell)
• Must-Read: Barry Eichengreen: Rethinking Capital Controls: "Worries persist that capital controls create a breeding ground for both corruption and distortions in resource allocation...

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