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Must-Reads: May 21, 2016

Simon Wren-Lewis: Helicopter Money and Fiscal Policy
Cardiff Garcia: Remembrance of Bloggy Things Past
Ryan Avent: The Fed Ruins Summer: America’s Central Bank Picks a Poor Time to Get Hawkish
Mark Thoma sends us to: Paul Krugman**: Obama’s War on Inequality
Pro-Growth Liberal: EconoSpeak: Eduardo Porter on the Need For Fiscal Stimulus
Daniel Altman: Economics Has Failed America: “When it comes to the impact of global trade, the dismal science has done a dismal job explaining how to help workers hurt by globalization…”
Weekend Reading: RIchard Hofstadter (1954): The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt
Live from the Self-Made Gehenna That Is Twitter: Matt Bruenig is a very smart man…. Not on Twitter, Matt Bruenig is almost always very much worth reading…. On Twitter–that wretched hive of scum and villainy–not so much: Kevin Drum: The Great Matt Bruenig-Neera Tanden Kerfuffle Sort of Explained

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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