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Things to Read on the Afternoon of June 5, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

Must-Read: Sahil Kapur: A Republican Supreme Court Victory on Obamacare Could Backfire in 2016 Swing States
Eduardo Porter: Economic Statistics Miss the Benefits of Technology
Must-Read: Mark Thoma: Krugman vs. DeLong
Must-Read: Cullen Roche: Does a “Liquidity Trap” Ever End?
Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Multipliers and Reality
Thomas Piketty: A Practical Vision of a More Equal Society
Must-Read: IMF Warns Fed to Hold Its Fire on Rate Rise
Must-Read: Ben Thompson: The Funnel Framework
Must-Read: Roger E.A. Farmer (2013): Animal Spirits, Financial Crises, and Persistent Unemployment
Must-Read: David Glasner: Repeat after Me: Inflation’s the Cure not the Disease

Might Like to Be Aware of:

Ethan Zuckerman: Introducing FOLD, a new tool (and a new model?) for storytelling
(2010) Russ Roberts Is Absurdly Gullible
(2011) Russ Roberts Is Lunatic

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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