Must-reads: February 11, 2016
- : Facebook Q4 2015 Results–Earnings Call Transcript
- : Household Debt, Redistribution, and Monetary policy during the Economic Slump
- : Vanguard’s Low Blow
- : Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey
- : Why the Working Class Is Choosing Trump and Sanders
- : Plato vs. Metaphysics, or How Very Hard it Is to Un-Learn Freud
- (1936): The State of Long-Term Expectation
- : US immigration: Workers wanted
- : Medicaid and the Primaries
- : “The way to discipline Fed policy is with a level target (pref NGDP, but price OK), not a Taylor rule. Short run flexibility but no escape…”
- Ezra Klein: “Things America doesn't have: socialized medicine. Things it does have: rationing, which is done, in this country, through ability to pay.”
- (2007): We Ration. We Ration. We Ration. We Ration.
- : Ta-Nehisi Coates on Race, Class, and Reparations: “The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness: Black poverty is fundamentally distinct from white poverty—and so cannot be addressed without grappling with racism…”
- : “Daniel Hirschman’s review: of Harry Frankfurt’s exercise in lazy profit-taking book confirms my fears about it…”
- : The Full Employment Productivity Multiplier
- : Thinking Through Violence in The Just City and The Philosopher Kings
- : What Went Wrong In Flint
- (1975): The Age of Excess: United States from 1877-1914