Weekend reading

This is a weekly post we publish on Fridays with links to articles we think anyone interested in equitable growth should read. We won’t be the first to share these articles, but we hope by taking a look back at the whole week we can put them in context.

Links

Productivity growth: an incredibly important economic statistic that no one understands that well. [bloomberg]

Justin Fox on the valuation of Snapchat and the art of valuating businesses itself. [bloomberg view]

Equitable Growth’s Robert Lynch parses the difference between conventional and dynamic scoring. [roll call]

The President’s Council of Economic Advisers released this year’s Economic Report of the President. [the white house]

Izabella Kaminska on negative interest rates and the global cash burn. [ft alphaville]

Friday Figure