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Must- and Should-Reads: February 28, 2017

Kevin Drum: WSJ: Republicans Give Up, Admit They Can’t Create a Non-Appalling Health Care Plan: “There you have it…
Nick Crafts: Whither Economic Growth?: “Only yesterday… the so-called new economy was ascendant…
Must-Read: Heather Boushey: The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline: “Peter Temin’s… The Vanishing Middle Class…. argues that the distribution of gains from economic growth today…

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David Anderson: 218 in the House: “Harris Meyer: ‘Source said Rs will hold hands and jump off the cliff, someone called it the Thelma and Louise plan…'”
Chris Blattman: Why I’m a Universal Basic Income skeptic, especially for poor countries
Gavyn Davies: Whatever happened to secular stagnation?
Olivier Blanchard: Self-fulfilling pessimism
Sluggish Future: Over at Finance and Development

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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