Must-Reads: November 16, 2016
- Mehreen Khan: Carney: world at risk of low rate ‘trap’ for decades: “The world economy risks being stuck in a low interest rate “trap” for decades without efforts to boost growth through structural reforms… (W)
- Noah Smith: Peak Finance Looks Like It’s Over: “How much of the financial industry will soon be obsolete?… (W)
- Jared Bernstein and Ben Spielberg: Preparing for the Next Recession: Lessons from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: “Moving forward… a stronger set of automatic stabilizers would help… (W)
- Martin Wolf: Donald Trump’s False Promises: “Fiscal loosening with monetary tightening would mean a stronger dollar and a rising current account deficit… (W)
Interesting Reads:
- Richard Baldwin: The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
- PIIE: The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
- Paul Krugman: The Gridlock Economy
- Eric Rauchway: On the national and international causes of Trumpism
- Note to Self: I *Still* Fail to Understand Ken Rogoff’s Medium-Long Term Macroeconomic Optimism…
- Cato and Varro: Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro
- Julian Schwinger: Einstein’s Legacy: The Unity of Space and Time: http://amzn.to/2fRbOC5
- Charles Torre: The Kepler Problem: “I won’t ask you to check that this is a Lagrangian symmetry. Try it only if you feel strong…”
- Twitter: Advanced Muting Options