Things to Read at Lunchtime on July 8, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Must-Read: Richard Kogan: CBO Contradicts Itself — Long-Term Budget Picture Improving, Not Worsening
• Must-Read: Raj Chetty: Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective
• Must-Read: Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin: History and the Sizes of Cities
• Mary Daly et al.: Finding Normal: Natural Rates and Policy Prescriptions
• Nick Bunker: Are estimates of the long-term U.S. unemployment rate too high?
• Must-Read: Ali Alichi et al.: Avoiding Dark Corners: A Robust Monetary Policy Framework for the United States
• Dan Drezner: “The only lesson that the United States should draw from Greece is that the United States is not Greece…”
• Must-Read: Benjamin Golez and Peter Koudijs: Four Centuries of Return Predictability
• Must-Read: Paul Blustein: Laid Low: The IMF, the Euro Zone and the First Rescue of Greece
• Must-Read: Brendan Duke: New Data Illustrate the Failure of the Trickle-Down Experiment
• Dan Alpert: Greece Descended Into Circus With No Ringmaster

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Doug J.: “[Charles Lane of] the Washington Post is edging closer to calling for a coup in Greece…”
• Ria Misra: [Chien-Shiung Wu’s] Experiment That Overturned A Basic Law of Physics](http://io9.com/the-experiment-that-overturned-a-basic-law-of-physics-1715265897)
• Must-Read: Nate Silver: The Polls Were Bad in Greece. The Conventional Wisdom Was Worse
• ASU Media Literacy Course
• Must-Read: Ethan Sacks: ‘Star Wars’ Standalone Film Will Be Han Solo Prequel – NY Daily News