Links of the Week - 30 May 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Rich Parents Planned This
Matt Bruenig

Derek Thompson: Reads Annie Lowrey on Why America’s Essentials Are Getting More Expensive While Its Toys Are Getting Cheap
via Brad DeLong

Inequality Has Been Going On Forever ... but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Inevitable
David Leonhardt

The Limits of Lyndon Johnson
Elizabeth Drew

Why Participation Is Down
Evan Soltas

Capital in the Twenty-First Century at The Graduate Center, CUNY [video]
via Mark Thoma

Distance to inflation target
The FRED Blog

Where do profits come from?
Matthew Yglesias

How NFL teams ignore basic economics and draft players irrationally
Joseph Stromberg

Piketty’s Arguments Still Hold Up, After Taxes
Jared Bernstein

Inside the President’s Inner Circle
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall

Sticky prices: how we confuse students, and sometimes ourselves -
imon Wren-Lewis

The diminishing usefulness of the Fed Funds rate
Sober Look

The Stock Market, in Six Charts
Neil Irwin

Slides for: Mr. Piketty and the “Neoclassicists”: A Suggested Interpretation
Brad DeLong

Links of the Week - 23 May 2014

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Notes and Finger Exercises on Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”
Brad DeLong

The Fishermen
Evan Soltas

Studying the Rich
Mike Konczal

What Piketty’s Conservative Critics Get Wrong
Kathleen Geier

Myths about the political beliefs of economists
Chris Auld

My review of Megan McArdle’s review of Capital In the 21st Century
Fredrik deBoer

4 ways to stop the U.S. from becoming a Piketty-style oligarchy
Matt O'Brien

In What Sense Does Economics Need a “New Paradigm”?
Brad DeLong

This map shows America’s real unemployment problem
Ezra Klein

Trading in Milliseconds: When Correlations Break Down
Jared Bernstein

Who holds (and has held) Federal Debt?

Via the outstanding FRED Blog, this is a graphic that shows how the composition of Federal debt-holders has evolved over time. The FRED Blog posted this data as a pie chart showing the current composition. I thought it would be more interesting to show the evolution. The left axis shows the percent (totaling 100).

The brown area shows the percentage of outstanding Federal debt held by foreign and international investors. The white area is the percentage held by domestic investors.* The green area is the percentage held by the Federal Reserve.





*The amount of Federal debt held by domestic investors is not calculated directly, so this series is determined by arithmetic.

Links of the Week - 16 May 2014

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"Capital" and its discontents
Ryan Avent

Thomas Piketty Is Right: Everything you need to know about 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'
Robert Solow

The Neo-Fisherite Rebellion
Noah Smith

Ranchers like Cliven Bundy are moochers
Matthew Yglesias

The Taylor Rule
The FRED Blog

Thomas Piketty doesn’t hate capitalism
Matthew Yglesias

Will 2014 end up like 1914?
Larry Summers

Links of the Week - 9 May 2014

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Beyond the Laffer Curve — the case for confiscatory taxation
Matthew Yglesias

Sadomonetarists
Jonathan Wight

No, inequality doesn't help the economy grow
Matthew Yglesias

Adam Smith is not the antidote to Thomas Piketty
Deborah Boucoyannis

Economist Receives Rock Star Treatment
Jennifer Schuessler

Links of the Week - 2 May 2014

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Does inflation make you poorer?
Noah Smith

‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’, by Thomas Piketty
Martin Wolf

Piketty Day Notes
Paul Krugman

Not a summary of economics
Noah Smith

Yes, the Pay Gap Persists
Evan Soltas