Noted for the Evening of October 14, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Daniel Davies: “To solve Britain’s housing crisis we don’t need to build more houses, we need to fix our rental laws…”
• Jared Bernstein: Fed Fight!
• Vasco Cúrdia: Why So Slow? A Gradual Return for Interest Rates
• Ben Thompson: “Venture capitalists are arbitrageurs… [with] more information than those with the capital… more capital than those with information… exploiting the mismatch…. This is not a bad thing! Our entire economy is predicated on middlemen… an entire supply chain of middlemen that results in $4 toast from wheat that costs $4/bushel…”
• Noah Smith: It Isn’t Just Asian Immigrants Who Thrive in the U.S.
• Douglas Staiger, James H. Stock, and Mark W. Watson (1997): How Precise Are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment?

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Ben Thompson: Venture Capital and the Internet’s Impact
• Steven Levy: How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina
• TV Tropes: Ancillary Justice
• T. S. Boyajian et al.: Planet Hunters X: KIC 8462852–Where’s the Flux?
• James Aitcheson: Sworn Sword, ch. 1
• ‘Shrooms: Phallus Indusiatus
• Ann Leckie: She Commands Me and I Obey