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• Paul Krugman (2013): Friedman and the Austrians
• Dylan Matthews: Barack Obama: One of the Most Consequential Presidents

Should-reads:

• Jacob Viner (1936): Mr. Keynes on the Causes of Unemployment
• Jacob Viner (1933): Balanced Deflation, Inflation, or More Deflation
• Jason Furman and Jeffrey Zients: Thinking Outside the Cable Box: How More Competition Gets You a Better Deal
• (2010) Policy Proposals to Boost Employment in Obama’s 2010 State of the Union Address
• (2010) Barack Herbert Hoover Grover Cleveland Obama?

et al.: Breaking the Oil Spell: The Path to Diversification
* **Pro-Market Writers: The White House Acknowledges: The U.S. Has a Concentration Problem; President Obama Launches New Pro-Competition Initiative
* Nick Bunker: How concerned should we be about business investment and productivity growth? – Equitable Growth
* William Cavanaugh and Jack Figura: Merrick Garland on Efficiencies
* Larry Summers: Corporate Profits Near Record Highs Is a Problem

Should Reads:

• Matt O’Brien: This is the worst argument about the national debt you’ll ever find
• Mike Konczal: Metlife, Living Wills, and the Necessity of Technocratic Regulators
• Bob Bryan: People hate the stock market
• Jordan Weissmann: Time’s new cover story about the national debt is bad
• John Robertson and Ellyn Terry: Which Wage Growth Measure Best Indicates Slack in the Labor Market?

• Olivier Blanchard: The US Phillips Curve: Back to the 60s?
• Guenther Roth: The Near-Death of Liberal Capitalism: Perceptions from the Weber to the Polanyi Brothers
• Kate Davidson and Anupreeta Das: Fed’s New Bank Critic Keeps Heat On
• Duncan Black: Time To Increase Interest Rates!

Should Reads:

• Akin Oyedele: San Francisco house prices fall
• Justin Fox: The Tyranny of the Noncompete Clause

• Charles Moore: The Middle-Class Squeeze
• David Dayen: The Most Important 2016 Issue You Don’t Know About
• Jim Zarroli: Raj Chetty et al.’s Life Expectancy Study: It’s Not Just What You Make, It’s Where You Live
• Noah Smith: 101ism in Action: Minimum Wage Edition

Should-Reads:

• Andrew Levin: Reforming the Federal Reserve to Ensure Accountability, Transparency, and Good Governance
• Simon Wren-Lewis: Fiscal policy explains the weak recovery: “We already have a simple and conventional story to explain the weak recovery…”
• Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell: Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more: “Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more…”
• Matthew C Klein: The case for more capital
• James Davidson: Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
• Ben Bernanke: What Tools Does the Fed Have Left? Part 1: Negative Interest Rates | : Targeting Longer-Term Interest Rates | Helicopter Money
• Gabriel Zucman: Sanctions for Offshore Havens, Transparency at Home
• Tim Duy: So Just How Much of an Overshoot on Inflation Will the Fed Tolerate?:
• Invictus: Busted: The Sad Data Manipulation of Prof Mark Perry
• “Liquidation” Cycles and the Great Depression
• Josh Rosner: What is Wrong With the Parrott, Ranieri, Sperling, Zandi and Zigas Reform Proposal? Everything
• Milton Friedman (1972): Comments on the Critics
• Matt Yglesias: Median CEO pay fell in 2015 to “only” $10.8 million
• Alex Tabarrok: Declining Mobility and Restrictions on Land Use
• Paul Krugman (1999): Thinking about the Liquidity Trap
• Paul Krugman: Liquidity preference, loanable funds, and Niall Ferguson
• On the Proper Size of the Public Sector and the Level of Public Debt in the Twenty-First Century

• Matthew Klein: Private Equity’s Mark-to-Make-Believe Problem
• Susan Dynarski: Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered
• Robert B. Reich: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
• Barry Eichengreen: The Case for a Grand Bargain

Should-reads:

• Libby Nelson: A top expert on tax havens, Gabriel Zucman, explains why the Panama Papers barely scratch the surface

• Simon Wren-Lewis: The Financial Crisis, Austerity and the Shift from the Centre
• Yuka Hayashi and Anna Prior: U.S. Unveils Retirement-Savings Revamp, but With a Few Concessions to Industry
• Robert Gordon (2012): Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds

Should Reads:

• Giles Parkinson: Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk just killed the petrol car
• David Beckworth: The Safe Asset Problem is Back: Negative Interest Rate Edition
• David Howell: What’s the Right Minimum Wage?
• Bill McBride: Goldman: “Household Formation Close to Normal”
• Nick Bunker: JOLTS and another look at the health of the U.S. labor market