Procrastinating on January 26, 2016
Over at Equitable Growth — The Equitablog:
- Heather Boushey: Feminist economics and policymaking
- Nick Bunker: The corporate savings glut and the economic possibilities of the future
- Jeff Weintraub on Adam Smith’s Conceptual Sleight-of-Hand: Today’s Economic History
- Martin Sandbu: Ask the big question on central banking
- David Glasner: The Sky Is Not Falling… Yet
- Lars E.O. Svensson: Two serious mistakes in the Goodfriend and King review of Riksbank monetary policy
- John Plender: Capitalists Excel at Giving Themselves a Bad Name
- David Keohane: Further, further Pettis on China’s new “supply-side” reforms
- Michael Pettis: Will China’s new “supply-side” reforms help China? | What does a “good” Chinese adjustment look like? | Thin Air’s money isn’t created out of thin air
- Heather Boushey: Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict (Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 9780674660168)
- Nicholas Bagley: Legal Limits and the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
And Over Here:
- Jeff Weintraub on Adam Smith’s Conceptual Sleight-of-Hand: Today’s Economic History
- Live from La Farine: Marco Rubio is trying to exercise his right to rise! And what are JEB!! and the Bushies doing to him?!
- Liveblogging the Cold War: January 26, 1946: I.V. Kurchatov
- Liveblogging World War I: January 25, 1916: Maurice Paeleologue
- Live from La Farine: The problem with… Parker and Haberman — is that you never know (1) whether the reporters are spinning the situation in order to pay back their sources, (2) whether the (unnamed) sources are spinning the reporters, or (3) whether the story is accurate…
- Must-Read: Martin Sandbu: Ask the big question on central banking
- Must-Read: David Glasner: The Sky Is Not Falling… Yet
- Must-Read: Lars E.O. Svensson: Two serious mistakes in the Goodfriend and King review of Riksbank monetary policy
- Must-Read: John Plender: Capitalists Excel at Giving Themselves a Bad Name
- Monday Smackdown: David Warsh Says: “Opinions of Shape of Earth Differ!”
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- Tom Phillips: The day Zhao Wei disappeared: how a young law graduate was caught in China’s human rights dragnet: “They must be torturing her,’ says Zhao’s mother as she desperately searches for the daughter who vanished seven months ago…”
- M. Tullius Cicero (54 BC): The Britons Are too Stupid to Even Make Good Slaves
- Katha Pollitt: Hillary Clinton Is Criticized Because It’s Always the Woman’s Fault
- Pema Levy: How Bernie Sanders Helped Derail a Promising Legal Fight Against Gun Violence | Mother Jones: “The most viable effort in decades to stem the flow of guns onto the black market ended with the immunity bill Sanders helped pass…”about-the-2015-budget-agreement/)