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Must-Read: Dani Rodrik: Brexit and the Globalization Trilemma

Must-Read: Time to fly my Neoliberal Freak Flag again! I see this very differently than the extremely-sharp leader of the Seventh Social-Democratic International Dani Rodrik does. The Greek and the...

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Must-Read: Larry Summers: Fed’s Current Strategy Ill Adapted to the Realities

Must-Read: Larry Summers is right. If the Phillips Curve today still had the short-run slope in the gearing of expected inflation to recent past inflation that it appeared to have at the start of the...

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Must-Read: FOMC: Press Release–June 15, 2016

Must-Read: Somebody really should have dissented from this press release: if 0.5% is the forecast of the appropriate Fed Funds rate in 2018, zero is the appropriate Fed Funds rate now. But who? Charlie...

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Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Financial markets are begging the US, Europe,...

Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Financial markets are begging the US, Europe, and Japan to run bigger deficits: “The international financial community wants to lend money this cheaply… … [so] governments...

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Must-Read: Martin Wolf: David Cameron, the Ex-Prime Minister, Took a Huge...

Must-Read: The very sharp Martin Wolf sees structural recession in Britain’s near future. People minimizing risk are going to leave Britain. People who would otherwise locate in Britain and are...

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Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Brexit: The Morning After

Must-Read: I disagree with Paul Krugman: not “Brexit just brings to a head an abscess that would have burst fairly soon in any case…” but rather: Brexit evolves antibiotic-resistant bacteria and brings...

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In Which I Call for Academic Scribblers and Funct Economists to Enter into...

Must-Read: From my perspective, this piece at Vox.eu makes many too many bows to conventional-wisdom idols with not just feet but bodies and heads of clay. Thus I cannot sign on to it. Eleven...

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Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Against Eurotimidity

Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Against Eurotimidity: “The authors really are the best and brightest…. So I’d really like to say nice things… …Unfortunately… is this really all they can offer? I understand...

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Must-Read: Danny Yagan: Enduring Employment Losses from the Great Recession?:...

Must-Read: Danny Yagan: Enduring Employment Losses from the Great Recession?: Longitudinal Worker-Level Evidence: “The severity of the Great Recession varied across U.S. local areas… …Comparing two...

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Must-Read: Timothy B. Lee: Brexit Isn’t the Most Serious Threat to the EU —...

Must-Read: Timothy B. Lee: Brexit Isn’t the Most Serious Threat to the EU — the Euro Is: “David Beckworth makes the case that the economic woes of eurozone countries like Spain and Greece… …can...

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