Links of the Week - 17 October 2014

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Now as Provocateur, Summers Says Treasury Undermined Fed
Binyamin Appelbaum

Not all prices increase
The FRED Blog

Inflation hawks keep insisting they’re right. Reality disagrees.
Matt O'Brien

How close are the US labor markets to normalization?
Sober Look

The Long Cryptocon
Paul Krugman

‘Hey, didn’t you tell me that the Pirates would win the World Series?’ ‘Yes, but I didn’t say when.’
Andrew Gelman

11 maps that explain Washington, DC
Matthew Yglesias

Inequality really is rising, no matter how you fuss with the data
Matthew Yglesias

Poverty isn't just about not having much; it's about never knowing how much you're going to have
Danielle Kurtzleben

Inflation Hawks’ Views Are Independent of Actual Monetary Outcomes
Josh Barro

Links of the Week - 10 October 2014

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Georgia governor concocts conspiracy theory to explain away the nation's highest unemployment rate
Matthew Yglesias

Return of the Bums on Welfare
Paul Krugman

Making it cheaper and easier to trade stocks is a terrible idea
Matthew Yglesias

Why do people on Wall Street make so much money?
Matt O'Brien

Why the Fed Is So Wimpy
Justin Fox

Don't Pick the Wrong iPhone
Cass Sunstein

The Terrible Two
Paul Krugman

This recession was different
The FRED Blog

A clearer picture of housing equity before the crisis

The FRED Blog

Financial firms don’t need an inside job to get favorable Fed treatment
Kindred Winecoff

Now as Provocateur, Summers Says Treasury Undermined Fed
Binyamin Appelbaum

Links of the Week - 3 October 2014

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US health care in international context: the very picture of an outlier
Jared Bernstein

The Jobless Rate: The Worst Benchmark, Except for All the Others
Binyamin Appelbaum

The economics of reclining your airplane seat aren’t so simple
James Johnson

Scott Brown won his primary. Now he wants to be the first multi-state senator in 135 years
Andrew Prokop

The Biggest Problem in American Politics
Reihan Salam

Not all books are created equal
The FRED Blog

A brief, animated history of urban annexation
Emily Badger

Wild Words, Brain Worms, and Civility
Paul Krugman

Follow or Break the Rule?
Greg Mankiw

The demographics of the activity rate decline
The FRED Blog

If the lagging labor force rate doesn’t still embody considerable slack, then why does it increasingly predict wage growth?
Jared Bernstein

John Boehner’s Theory of the Leisure Class
Paul Krugman

Links of the Week - 26 September 2014

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Yellen, Wages, and Intellectual Honesty
Paul Krugman

Real Americans and Real Economics
Paul Krugman

A New Reason to Question the Official Unemployment Rate

David Leonhardt

Quits and layoffs

The FRED Blog

The Axis is back

Noah Smith

Market Basket’s Employees Were More Important Than Its Shareholders

Justin Fox

3 sentences no one should forget about unions

Ezra Klein

Is America's health care underperformance a myth?

Noah Smith

8 facts that explain what’s wrong with American health care

Sarah Kliff

The class war in American politics is over. The rich won.

Nick Carnes

4th Down: When to Go for It and Why

David Leonhardt

Don’t Know Much Revisionist History

Jamelle Bouie

Commentary: Subprime Thinking

Bill McBride

What The Economist could have read before suggesting that U.S. slavery wasn’t all bad

Chris Blattman

“Force” arguments continue to be the rhetorical backwater of idiots

Matt Bruenig

Links of the Week - 19 September 2014

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The Beveridge Curve hysteresis and the long-term unemployed

Sober Look

The case against time zones: They're impractical & outdated

Matthew Yglesias

Finding old inflation data

The FRED Blog

What libertarians and conservatives get wrong about Ferguson

Paul Waldman

RBC models we can believe in?

Noah Smith

By all means, we should ‘politicize’ Ferguson

Paul Waldman

Deutsche Bank: Ignoring food price pressures could be a mistake

Sober Look

40 maps that explain the Roman Empire

Timothy B. Lee

Inequality Delusions

Paul Krugman

Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

Jonathan Wight

A conservative economist makes a devastating case against his own inflation fear-mongering

Dylan Matthews

M2 velocity and inflation

The FRED Blog

5 charts that prove it's time workers got a raise

Matthew Yglesias

Chart of the Day: Welfare Reform and the Great Recession

Kevin Drum

Mr. Piketty and the classics

Branko Milanovic

Links of the Week - 12 September 2014

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White people are winning the war on whites
Christopher Ingraham

Are libertarians ready to embrace a broader notion of freedom?
Noah Smith

How Republican Craziness Is Undermining the South’s Massive Keynesian Stimulus
Mike the Mad Biologist

Measuring risk
The FRED Blog

The Gold Standard and Price Inflation
David Andolfatto

Libertarian Fantasies
Paul Krugman

Still No Wage Pressures to Speak Of…And Yet, People Speak of Them…
Jared Bernstein

Steps and the City
Paul Krugman

Yes, women's labor force participation matters
Noah Smith

The World Bank summed up the entire global economy in one chart
Matthew Yglesias

CPI component volatility
The FRED Blog

This billionaire has a message about inequality other billionaires aren’t going to like
Ezra Klein

Has the Beveridge Curve Really Shifted?
Jared Bernstein

Why aren’t libertarians talking about Ferguson?
Paul Waldman

Obama’s critics are suddenly sure Hillary Clinton is great
Ezra Klein

Links of the Week - 5 September 2014

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Inflation, Unemployment, Ignorance
Paul Krugman

In Investing, 'When' Matters Just as Much as 'What'
Neil Irwin

We Don’t Need to End “Too Big to Fail”
Eric Posner

Inflation OCD
Paul Krugman

Why the Rich Should Call for Income Redistribution
Mark Thoma

Why 70% of the people killed in Israel-Gaza violence are innocent Palestinian civilians
Max Fisher

James Garfield, Modern Medicine, and Economics
Jonathan Wight

Hawks Be Gone
Paul Krugman

Let's Hope the GAO Report Ends the Too-Big-to-Fail Subsidy Distraction
Mike Konczal

Good News on Financial Reform
Paul Krugman

Food, Energy and the Fed
Jon Hilsenrath

Tight rental market holding back household formation
Sober Look

Broken Windows Policing Kills People
Jamelle Bouie

The case for a maximum wage
Matthew Yglesias

These 7 Charts Show Why the Rent Is Too Damn High
Erika Eichelberger & AJ Vicens

Links of the Week - 29 August 2014

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Chart: Even mediocre CEOs get huge pay packages
Danielle Kurtzleben

Wall Street Skips Economics Class
Noah Smith

National unity sure is helpful
Noah Smith

Why Voters Aren’t Angrier About Economic Inequality

Eduardo Porter

National Review’s Dishonest History

Jamelle Bouie

Achieving Greater Long-Term Wealth Through Index Funds

Charles Rotblut & John C. Bogle

Thoughts on the Fed's New Labor Market Conditions Index

Carola Binder

Addressing misconceptions about the Consumer Price Index

John S. Greenlees & Robert B. McClelland

Why a Soaring Stock Market Is Wasted on the Young

Neil Irwin

In Investing, 'When' Matters Just as Much as 'What'

Neil Irwin

The US Phillips curve
Sober Look

Moore of the same
Paul Krugman

North Carolina’s Misunderstood Cut in Jobless Benefits
Justin Wolfers

On State Unemployment Rates, It’s Analyst Beware
Justin Wolfers

Spurious correlation
The FRED Blog

Links of the Week - 22 August 2014

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Austrianism, wrong? Inconceivable!
Noah Smith

The most important chart nobody is talking about
Matthew Yglesias

The intellectual cesspool of the inflation truthers
Matt O'Brien

Meet Rutherford: The surprisingly durable American habit of naming kids after sitting presidents.
Ben Blatt

Tipping perpetuates racism, classism, and poverty — let's get rid of it!
Brandon Ambrosino

The free market is an impossible utopia
Henry Farrell

Republicans want to control, not end, the Fed
Matt O'Brien

On the Difference Between GNP and GDP
Dan Hirschman

Dear inflation truthers: This is how averages work
Matt O'Brien

Let them eat cosmopolitanism
Ryan Avent

What Is "Subprime"?
Calculated Risk

Why more companies want pensions off their books
Michael A. Fletcher

Is economics jargon distortionary?
Simon Wren-Lewis

Overruled
The Economist

Less than a quarter of Americans get the most important investment question right
Dylan Matthews

Links of the Week - 15 August 2014

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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

Links of the Week - 8 August 2014

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Trick or Tweak
Paul Krugman

The economy’s troubling double standard for black men
Jonnelle Marte

Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby and the Decay of Welfare Capitalism
Brad DeLong

A Few More Thoughts on the Ex-Im Bank
Jared Bernstein

Mapping international data
The FRED Blog

The Great Disinvestment
Paul Krugman

The return of ‘47 percent’ and the endless political class war

Paul Waldman

These Ages of Shoddy

Paul Krugman

Donors Give More When They Have a Sense of Belonging

Robert Shiller

Why I'm tired of hearing about 'that' civil rights movement

John Blake

Austrian Economists, 9/11 Truthers and Brain Worms
Noah Smith

The Tragic Success of Freedom Summer
Josh Zeitz

"I Thought I Could Swing It": The Strange Life and Presidency of Silent Cal
Anthony Bergen

Why printing more money could have stopped the Great Recession
Timothy B. Lee

The spontaneous combustion theory of inflation
Greg Ip

Links of the Week - 1 August 2014

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40 maps that explain World War I
Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Yglesias

The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
Nick Hanauer

More than three quarters of conservatives say the poor “have it easy”
Christopher Ingraham

A black man with a college degree is as likely to be working as a white college dropout
Danielle Kurtzleben

63% of Americans believe 'blacks who can't get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition'
Max Fisher

Why free parking is bad for everyone
Joseph Stromberg

Yes, if You Cut Taxes, You Get Less Tax Revenue
Josh Barro

Demographics: Prime and Near-Prime Population and Labor Force
Bill McBride

Oldies But Goodies

Paul Krugman

Moaning Moguls

James Surowiecki