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@#$#@!*&%%!! Ana Swanson: Trump proposes rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership to shield farmers from trade war

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Rescue the Republican Party by turning Republicans into New Deal Democrats?: Geoffrey Kabaservice: The dream of a Republican New Deal

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An interesting example of non-representative firm macro: Ernesto Pasten, Raphael Schoenle, and Michael Webe: Price rigidities and the granular origins of aggregate fluctuations

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Should-read: Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, and Amanda Pallais: ‘Acting wife’: Marriage market incentives and labor market investments

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Assessing the economic effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Tax & Macroeconomics
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Should-read: George W. Evans and Bruce McGough: Equilibrium selection, observability and backward-stable solutions

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Should-read: Oscar Jorda, Katharina Knoll, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Moritz Schularick, and Alan M.Taylor: The rate of return on everything, 1870–2015

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Should-read: Prospect Magazine: Back to school: top economists on what their subject needs to learn next

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Crisis, rinse, repeat: The Great Depression, the Great Recession