Links of the Week - 15 August 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


7 papers, 4 government inquiries, 2 news investigations and 1 court ruling proving voter fraud is mostly a myth
Christopher Ingraham

The Monetary Fever Swamps
Paul Krugman

Debt- and deficit-to-GDP dynamics
The FRED Blog

What the Beveridge Curve may tell us about the U.S. labor market
Nick Bunker

Has the Beveridge Curve Shifted?
Murat Tasci & John Lindner

Flows From Unemployment to Employment & Extended Unemployment Insurance
Robert Waldmann

New Tool from Atlanta Fed: GDPNow
Bill McBride

Brookings: One political party is actively working to make government fail (guess which one!)
Christopher Ingraham & Tom Hamburger

In search of search theory

John Quiggin

How conservatives won with Obamacare

Ezra Klein

How long can the GOP last as the cranky oldster party?

Matthew Yglesias

We Didn’t Build That

David Weigel

A three-headed hydra: Measuring inequality

The Economist

7 reasons the gold standard is a terrible idea

Matthew Yglesias

Debt Shall Have No Dominion

Paul Krugman