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Must-Reads: August 12, 2016

Josh Brown: Reaction: Jesse Livermore–Boy Plunger
Nikola Koepka and Joerg Baten (2005): “The biological standard of living in Europe during the last two millennia”
S. Dorn and M. Buettgens: The Cost to States of Not Expanding Medicaid
Paul Krugman: The State of Macro Is Sad
Tyler Cowen: The Roots of Trump Support

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Niccolò Machiavelli (1513): Letter to Vettori
140 Words: Sub-Turing Evocations
Erasmus, Tolkien, Clark Kerr, and Californium (2009)
Robert Scott (2011): [Heading South: U.S.-Mexico Trade and Job Displacement after NAFTA][]
Per Kurowski: 22 reasons for why I believe the bank regulators in the Basel Committee are complete idiots… or something worse
Must-Read: Storify: I Think Tyler Cowen Is Confused About Social Choice and Investment-Spending Hurdle Rates

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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