Must-reads: April 11, 2016
- : The Middle-Class Squeeze
- : The Most Important 2016 Issue You Don’t Know About
- : Raj Chetty et al.’s Life Expectancy Study: It’s Not Just What You Make, It’s Where You Live
- : 101ism in Action: Minimum Wage Edition
Should-Reads:
- : Reforming the Federal Reserve to Ensure Accountability, Transparency, and Good Governance
- : Fiscal policy explains the weak recovery: “We already have a simple and conventional story to explain the weak recovery…”
- : Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more: “Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more…”
- : The case for more capital
- : Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
- : What Tools Does the Fed Have Left? Part 1: Negative Interest Rates | : Targeting Longer-Term Interest Rates | Helicopter Money
- : Sanctions for Offshore Havens, Transparency at Home
- : So Just How Much of an Overshoot on Inflation Will the Fed Tolerate?:
- : Busted: The Sad Data Manipulation of Prof Mark Perry
- “Liquidation” Cycles and the Great Depression
- : What is Wrong With the Parrott, Ranieri, Sperling, Zandi and Zigas Reform Proposal? Everything
- (1972): Comments on the Critics
- : Median CEO pay fell in 2015 to “only” $10.8 million
- : Declining Mobility and Restrictions on Land Use
- (1999): Thinking about the Liquidity Trap
- : Liquidity preference, loanable funds, and Niall Ferguson
- On the Proper Size of the Public Sector and the Level of Public Debt in the Twenty-First Century