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Must-Reads: June 12, 2016

Dani Rodrik: Innovation Is Not Enough
Ben Eisen: Newest Inflation Expectations Likely to Trouble the Fed
Marco Arment: Avoiding BlackBerry’s Fate

Should Reads:

Roger Farmer (2014): My Quiz for Wannabe Keynesians
Aviva Shen: Paul Ryan Is Pretty Sure Welfare Recipients Are Not Working Hard Enough
Nick Rowe: The Law of Reflux vs Helicopter Money
Lizzy O’Leary: Narayana Kocherlakota explains why the Fed matters to you
Kathleen Pender: Bay Area apartment owners lose pricing power
Max Chafkin and Ian King: How Intel Makes a Chip: The development of a microprocessor is one of the riskiest, costliest, and most technically complex feats in business.
Aaron Carroll: The U.S. Is Failing in Infant Mortality, Starting at One Month Old
Paul Krugman (2014): Why the One Percent Hates Obama
Erik Loomis: Why Taming the Exploitation in Supply Chains is Entirely Possible
Varieties of Macroeconomics: A Conversation with Noah Smith and Others
Weekend Reading: Tim Duy: Five Questions for Janet Yellen
Macroeconomics, Fantasy, Reality, and Intellectual Utility…
Weekend Reading: Ezra Klein: This Is How the GOP Got Trump
Weekend Reading: Paul Krugman BI DE Interview

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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