Must-Reads: August 2, 2016

• Andy Taylor: Failure To Expand Medicaid Adds To Stresses In Southeast Kansas County
• Nick Rowe: Anti Urban Economics
• David Lipton : The Key to Raising Business Investment: Keep Pushing the Accelerator:

Should Reads:

• Kurt Overmeyer
• David Beckworth: The International Impact of the Fed When the United States is a Banker to the World
• Ann Kim: Would a Public Option Improve Obamacare?
• Nouriel Roubini: Europe’s Brexit Hangover
• Claudia Sahm: Aging and Productivity Growth
• Robin Harding: Japan Launches $45bn Stimulus Package
• Live from the American Press Corps’ Self-Made Gehenna: Steve M.: We’ve Entered the Professional-Centrist Handwringing Phase
• The Wayback Machine: From Ten Years Ago: July 27-August 2, 2006
• Dean Acheson, FDR’s Wishes, and the Origins of U.S. Engagement in World War II: Hoisted from the Archives
• James Kwak Thinks About Lessons from Steve Cohen’s and My “Concrete Economics”
• “Concrete Economics”, Pragmatism, the Hamilton Tradition, the Evolution of Macroeconomics, and the Post-2008 Nominal Demand Shortfall
• Live from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Buce: Hot Baths