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Must-Reads: July 13, 2016

Jack Ayer: Khlopotat’
Tony Barber: A Renewed Nationalism Is Stalking Europe
Sheryl Sandberg (2011): Barnard College Commencement
Nick Rowe: Adding More Periods to Diamond-Dybvig: Fear of Illiquidity, Not Insolvency

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Gene Sperling: Modernizing Unemployment Insurance As Part Of The New Social Compact
Richard Baldwin: The economics of Brexit: Pre-referendum videos and columns on VoxEU.org
Matthew Parris: For the first time in my life, I feel ashamed to be British: I’ve seen a nasty side to our national character, and seen colleagues and friends pander to it in a way I never thought they would…
Barack Obama: United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
Democracy: Unfinished Business
SocArXiv
Jason Furman: The Economic Case for Strengthening Unemployment Insurance
John Maynard Keynes (1933): Trotsky On England
George Osborne (2010): A New Economic Model
Gavyn Davies: The German Balance of Payments Quandary
Comment of the Day: Robert Waldmann: Monday Smackdown: Paul Krugman Tut-Tuts at David Frum for the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
Brexit: I Think Paul Krugman Is Confused Here…

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