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Must-reads: February 1, 2016

Peter A. Petri and Michael G. Plummer**: The Economic Effects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: New Estimates
Richard Mayhew: The Nitty Gritty of Cost Control
Jed Graham: The Fed’s Historic Rate-Hike Goof–in One Chart
Branko Milanovic: Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

Miles Kimball: The Medium-Run Natural Interest Rate and the Short-Run Natural Interest Rate
Paul Krugman: “The old Milton Friedman two-step…. That the Fed could have prevented a disaster… morphs into the claim that the Fed caused the disaster. See, government is the problem, not the solution! And the motivation for this bait-and-switch is, indeed, political…”
Brad DeLong (2003): Profits of Doom
Noah Smith: “I guess there will always be a market for books claiming that progressives were The Real Nazis: https://t.co/Qw6dPC2ahr“
Lizzy O’Leary: On Flint’s Shaken Faith, and Its Childrens’ Future
Emma Sandoe: Why Asset Tests Need Reform
Robert Z. Lawrence: Studies of TPP: Which Is Credible?
Nicolas Colin: 11 Notes on Amazon

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U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon