Must-reads: January 18, 2016
- Please: Lets Agree to Speak the Same Language :
- The Price of Oil, China, and Stock Market Herding :
- China devaluation – a necessary evil? :
- The Gospel According to Trump :
- “The Federal Reserve Act’s vision of economic diversity is largely regional and sectoral…. As we all know all too well, race matters…. The [Federal Open Market] Committee’s deliberations would be even stronger if they took more account than they did in 2010 of this essential source of heterogeneity in our nation’s economic life.” :
- The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) [is] a prominent school voucher plan…. LSP participation substantially reduces academic achievement.” :
- Risk Parity :
- Recent Economic Data and the Risk of a Recession :
- Health Reform Is Hard :
- The NFL’s Donté Stallworth on what it’s like to manage millions as an athlete :
- Even Talking About Reducing Drug Prices Can Reduce Drug Prices :
- Cables, Sharks and Servers: Technology and the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market :