Noted for Your Afternoon Reading on September 15, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- Must-Read: Student Loan Distress Goes Beyond Defaults :
- The Lessons of Lehman, Learned and Unlearned :
- Rethinking Government Debt :
- Must-Read: Convergence in Macroeconomics: Hoisted from Ray Fair’s Archives (2010):
- It is highly unlikely that China would need to spend all of its reserves to defend the renminbi…. Moreover, the reserves are not useful for anything [else]… so China may as well use them…. Indeed… China is better off selling reserves while it can still get a good price for them… :
- Why is the media more interested in Hillary’s email than in Jeb’s profoundly dishonest tax pitch? :
- Must-Read: Poland Versus Greece :
- Prospect Theory as Efficient Perceptual Distortion :
- Full Employment Hasn’t Always Translated Into Higher Inflation: We believe this time will be different :
- Must-Read: Labour’s Dead Center :
- Must-Read: The Importance of Corbynomics **:
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: “For African Americans, Unfreedom Is the Historical Norm” :
- Must-Read: Why the Fed Is Likely to Stand Pat This Week :
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- Planned Parenthood… didn’t sell fetal tissue for a profit… didn’t misuse public resources… didn’t violate any laws. The Republican plan was based on a foundation of quicksand…. But… GOP House members are now shifting to their back-up plan: they no longer care whether Planned Parenthood did anything wrong… :
- Straws in the LHC Wind: Lepton Universality and an Update on “That Bump” :
- Serial Box
- Arkham, Mass.