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Must-Reads: August 1, 2016

Paul Krugman (2013): Helicopters Don’t Help:
Willem Buiter: EU and China Ought to Use Helicopter Money
[Nick Bunker: How Many Big Macs will That Minimum Wage Buy?
Eric Lonergan: Helicopter Money Is Different
Eric Lonergan: A Brief Reply to Paul Krugman on Policy Equivalence: “Helicopter money is partly useful precisely because it addresses the institutional failure of fiscal policy…”

Should Reads:

Alan Blinder (2000): Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound: Balancing the Risks
(2000): Journal of Money, Credit and Banking: Monetary Policy in a Low-Inflation Environment
Links for the Week of July 31, 2016
Monday DeLong Self-Smackdown: DeLong (2000) Sees the Trees, But Overlooks the Forest as Far as the Macroeconomic Dangers of Low Inflation Are Concerned…
America’s Historical Experience with Low Inflation: Hoisted from 1999

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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