Weekend reading

This is a weekly post we publish every Friday with links to articles we think anyone interested in equitable growth should read. We won’t be the first to share these articles, but we hope by taking a look back at the whole week we can put them in context.

Forever blowing bubbles?

Izabella Kaminska riffs off a new report from Matt King, global head of credit products strategy at Citigroup Inc., on secular stagnation [ft alphaville]

Matt Yglesias is concerned about the potential bubble in subprime auto loans [vox]

But Nick Timiraos isn’t so sure a bubble has emerged, or at least not yet. [wsj]

Who runs the economy?

Gwynn Guilford makes the economic case for paid parental leave [quartz]

The lives of the wealthy

Annie Lowrey looks at data from Wealth-X and UBS and introduces us to our friendly neighborhood billionaire [new york]

Ryan Avent looks at the economic consequences of the rich flaunting their wealth [the economist]