Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Interesting Reads:

• Jonathan Chait: Paul Ryan’s Dream of Tax Cuts for Rich Will Not Be Denied: "Republicans have control of Congress, and even if nothing else comes out of it and everything else falls part, the richest one percent are going to get paid...
• Brian Buetler: The Great Government Breakdown Has Begun: "Trump is exercising zero restraint, and Republicans aren't stopping him. Four years from now, the damage might be irreparable...
• Daniel Dale: The complete list of all 80 false things Donald Trump has said in his first 4 weeks as president: "The Star’s running tally of the bald-faced lies, exaggerations and deceptions the president of the United States of America has said, so far...
• Matthew Yglesias: On Twitter: "It's weird that Flynn did nothing wrong, lied about it, had the White House lie about it to the public, and then got fired when caught. https://t.co/NPo7Cka9vM
• Andy Banker: Vandals target historic Jewish cemetery in University City
• Maarten Rikken: Same-sex marriage policy linked to drop in teen suicide attempts
• Nancy LeTourneau: Mad Dog Mattis Attempts to Walk Back Another Potential War Crime
• Martin Longman: Trump’s SoHo Project, the Mob, and Russian Intelligence

And Over Here:

• Must-Read: Noah Smith: On Twitter: A Haiku for Humanity: "For a brief summer/We were valuable as/Microcontrollers"
• Must-Read: Jim Tankersley: Obama solved one economic crisis. It's the second that haunts him: "If you worked a factory shift in Michigan in January 2009...
• Must-Read: Raj Chetty et al.: Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility: "We characterize rates of intergenerational income mobility at each college in the United States using administrative data for over 30 million college students from 1999-2013...
• Reading: Sukkoo Kim (2006): Division of Labor and the Rise of Cities: Evidence from US Industrialization 1850-1880
• Reading: Alexander Klein and Nicholas Crafts (2015): Agglomeration Economics and Productivity Growth, U.S. Cities, 1880-1930
• Reading: Richard Hornbeck and Daniel Keniston (2014): Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
• Reading: Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin (2012): Portage and Path Dependence
• Lincoln's Birthday Blogging
• On Marc Levinson and His "The Box That Changed the World": Hoisted from the Archives
• Live from the Economists' Self-Made Gehenna: Dani Rodrik: _On Twitter: "Once asked a job candidate how he'd teach macro at HKS: "I'd use an OLG model, and since this is an intro course, not include money in it." https://t.co/53I9iknQDO
• Weekend Reading: Lyndsey Gilpin: Cancer Rates Are Dropping—But Not In Rural Appalachia
• Let's Think Harder About the Role of Globalization in Wage Stagnation
• Monday Smackdown: Hoisted from the Archives: Levitt and Dubner's "Superfreakonomics": The Parable of Horseshit
• Twenty-First Century American Nationalism Needs to Be Profoundly Cosmopolitan
• Global Warming: Time to Call the Bad Intellectual Bets...

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