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Keep calm and carry on as financial crisis looms - Telegraph Fact. There is a link between cuts and riots | Jacopo Ponticelli and Hans-Joachim Voth | Comment is free | The Guardian Banyan: What’s Schadenfreude in Chinese? | The Economist The dead end of globalisation looms before our youth | Pankaj Mishra | Comment is free | The Guardian Des idées-force pour éviter les impasses de la globalisation - LeMonde.fr History of CCTV Tim Harford — Article — Lessons in adapting from the War in Iraq Why £45k of uni debt shouldn't worry you one little bit -based on personal experience - The Student Room The 9/11 ‘overreaction’? Nonsense. - The Washington Post UK Debt Comparison Tool – Compare UK Debt By Region - StumbleUpon Hutt's Crushing Blow to Keynes - Hunter Lewis - Mises Daily - StumbleUpon BBC - Archive - Margaret Thatcher: From MP to PM - Panorama | Mrs Thatcher 6 Secret Monopolies You Didn't Know Run the World | Cracked.com 10 Lesser Known Economic Issues - StumbleUpon Baylor Religion Survey reveals many see God steering economy – USATODAY.com Government debt: Debt, deficits and the markets | The Economist Swedish study: free schools improve everyone's results » Spectator Blogs TheMoneyIllusion » Monetary equilibrium: Reply to Nick Rowe (and Bill Woolsey and Saturos) The effect of sexist humor and type of rape on men's self-reported rape proclivity and victim blame | Manuela Thomae - Academia.edu Woot! RoRo is fading. | FT Alphaville Circle's tough mission for Hinchingbrooke Hospital » Spectator Blogs Jersey Offshore, HSBC edition | FT Alphaville China is now targeting 9% NGDP growth « The Market Monetarist HidalgoHausmann_DAI_2008.pdf (application/pdf Object) Tawney 2010 Podcast Oil prices: Arbitrage in action | The Economist Politicians are in danger of forgetting the summer riots – and ignoring their lessons - Telegraph It is not inevitable that the EU – or democracy – will survive this mess | Comment is free | The Guardian Introduction to Microeconomics Of all the wild Tory dogma, this cut-price baby farming is the worst | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian Official Google Blog: Putting crowd wisdom to work India's Tommy Hilfiger utopia is a bluff that will soon be called across the globe | Pankaj Mishra | Comment is free | The Guardian Public sector workers need a plan C | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian The idea that 'poverty causes rioting' is the worst kind of patronising Left-wing determinism – Telegraph Blogs Confessions of a Chinese high school student | Danwei Straws grasped from China won't solve this world crisis | Jayati Ghosh | Comment is free | The Guardian Mary Dejevsky: Britain must join the euro – and Cameron is the man to do it - Mary Dejevsky - Commentators - The Independent The East India Company: The Company that ruled the waves | The Economist http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/gaddafis-fatal-delay-libya-6282130.html Corrupt elites are being named and shamed – by the people - Telegraph Barclays boss Bob Diamond might not be as bright as his name suggests | Comment is free | The Observer This is not a crisis of capitalism – it's just frozen plumbing – Telegraph Blogs New grammar schools are a distraction from real educational reform – Telegraph Blogs French children: enfants, but not terrible | Agnès Poirier | Comment is free | The Guardian Bagehot: The weight of the world | The Economist Birmingham: Second city, second class | The Economist Fiscal multipliers at the zero bound in an open economy 'HTB' lands its first Archbishop of Canterbury – Telegraph Blogs Deus Ex Macchiato » Dilution-based monetary transmission PRAGMATIC CAPITALISM – USA Recession Odds: 100%? Britain: a nation of SMEs | FT data Facebook to transform into an entertainment hub | Technology | The Guardian University: there’s no better place to be at the age of 18 - Telegraph The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom – Telegraph Blogs A crisis of capitalism | Riccardo Bellofiore | Comment is free | The Guardian Democracy and equality: The Mayoress of Mecca | The Economist The price of getting the 'predators' off our backs | Deborah Orr | Comment is free | The Guardian Kurzarbeit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Goodbye, Great Britain? – Telegraph Blogs Radical Britain: The unlikely revolutionary | The Economist China’s very mysterious data – Telegraph Blogs Inequality and democracy: I am the 1%! | The Economist Greece and the Melian Dialogue of Thucydides (obscure) – Telegraph Blogs Spain's sovereign thunderclap and the end of Merkel's Europe – Telegraph Blogs Explaining America's macro puzzles: The worst of all worlds | The Economist Even China's own data say its economy is troubled - CBS News How the Government collects our money and where it is spent - Telegraph Damian McBride on the dirty tricks of preparing a Budget – Telegraph Blogs Budget 2012: it's about time the wealthiest generation in history gave up its tax breaks – Telegraph Blogs Interpreting a purge: Where Bo goes | The Economist China Financial Markets Walter Russell Mead: The Myth of America's Decline - WSJ.com Monetary policy: Inflation, QE and forcing the banks to lend | The Economist London’s big lead and social mobility | FT data If the birth rate falls again, we're in serious trouble – Telegraph Blogs Former head of structured credit: 'We saw numbers behave in ways barely conceived possible' | Joris Luyendijk | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Creating economic wealth: The big why | The Economist Why you can't inflate away the eurozone's troubles – Telegraph Blogs The insanity of subsidising manufacturing – Telegraph Blogs Let's give Polly Toynbee the Britain she wants – Telegraph Blogs Why does cutting government spending mean faster growth? – Telegraph Blogs State school teachers' hopeless lack of ambition is why Oxford is so full of toffs – Telegraph Blogs Chart of the week: tracking the rising EM middle classes | beyondbrics English GCSE and Ofqual | FT data League tables help schools to improve - FT.com Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Liquidity-Velocity Multipliers, Menger, Money, and Financial Crises. You can’t measure an economy’s performance on recovery alone | Martin Wolf's Exchange Battle of the Chancellors: We don't need a Plan B » Spectator Blogs Britons have never been angrier or more confused | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer Variations autour du SP500 | Contrintuitif Satellite (application/pdf Object) Who ate all the gilts? Was it you, SNB? | FT Alphaville The Marketplace in Your Brain - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Medium of Account vs Medium of Exchange Cyclically adjusted measures of the stance of fiscal policy Self-defeating austerity? | vox 23690-OBR-Web-Only.pdf (application/pdf Object) How the tax facts get in the way of the Tory story - Comment - Voices - The Independent The data behind Gangnam Style: The rise and rise of PSY | The Economist Daily chart: Fun with tax | The Economist Independent, but Not Indifferent: Partisan Bias at the Federal Reserve — The Monkey Cage Defensible conclusions from observing UK fiscal policy An Olympic bounce into a deleveraging headwind | FT Alphaville pk_lubbock.pdf (application/pdf Object) TheMoneyIllusion » Do high inflation economies have fewer “structural” problems? 121026-SocGen.png (PNG Image, 994 × 556 pixels) Teachers 'to blame' for lack of ambition among pupils - Telegraph Stumbling and Mumbling: Support the undeserving poor Returning to growth in the UK: Policy lessons from history | vox Monetary policy: Got the funding, waiting on the lending | The Economist Austerity U.K. Edition, Part 2 - By Veronique de Rugy - The Corner - National Review Online Transcript of ’44 Bretton Woods Meeting Found at Treasury - NYTimes.com Gideon Gono, a time machine and the liquidity trap « The Market Monetarist Bring Back Nigel Lawson « uneconomical UK NGDP Targeting, circa 1989 « uneconomical Chuck Norris on monetary policy #1 « The Market Monetarist Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: How to manipulate student grades The Case for Nominal GDP Targeting | Mercatus NGDP_Sumner_v-10 copy.pdf (application/pdf Object) Raising standards, extending opportunities: Michael Gove speech to Politeia think tank | PoliticsHome | Transcripts | PoliticsHome Intrade Manipulation Fail B&B-Ch4.pdf (application/pdf Object) Cowen on Congdon (TLS, 10/19/12) - Google Drive Screen-shot-2012-10-23-at-2.50.43-PM.png (PNG Image, 539 × 328 pixels) Why the euro is doomed to fall apart: it was an incredibly stupid idea in the first place – Telegraph Blogs ecbwp1486.pdf (application/pdf Object) IMF's epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers - Telegraph The 7 Most Terrifying Archaeological Discoveries | Cracked.com Elections and economics: Grexiting the White House | The Economist Syria, the economy and the eurozone crisis – Telegraph Blogs gsw_jmcb_may_2012.pdf (application/pdf Object) OECD – Your Better Life Index Positive thinking, August 23rd | The Economist Recession does permanent damage to the economy: an effective stimulus is also a supply-side policy – Telegraph Blogs Kohr Principles - NYTimes.com The euro crisis: Depressing | The Economist Will the euro survive until 5 July? | John Rentoul | Independent Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - Blogs BM_Report3.pdf (application/pdf Object) Is Psychological Well-being Linked to the Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables? TheMoneyIllusion » Did expansionary austerity actually fail in Britain? 011012_dclg.pdf (application/pdf Object) Noahpinion: The state of the Macro Wars It's been a week of low farce for the Tories. Yet little has really changed | Jackie Ashley | Comment is free | The Guardian Vince Cable and social mobility | John Rentoul | Independent Eagle Eye Blogs Rebalancing China: China's consumer-led growth | The Economist TheMoneyIllusion » Do economists get their information from principles textbooks? Goldthorpe_Social_Mob_paper.pdf (application/pdf Object) Madame Shireen: A Procurer To The Rescue Economics: The proper tax rate on capital income is zero Noahpinion: Engineering vs. "Science" in macroeconomics Hamish McRae: Britain should welcome this silent revolution - Hamish McRae - Business Comment - The Independent This Is Why, To An Economist, QE Refuses To Work | ZeroHedge Noahpinion: Reinhart-Rogoff vs. Bordo-Haubrich (with grandstanding by John Taylor) TheMoneyIllusion » The same thing causing the slow recovery, also caused the recession Interest rates or expectations: How does monetary policy really work? TheMoneyIllusion » Krugman vs. Friedman GS_OILBREAKEVEN.jpg (JPEG Image, 1209 × 835 pixels) - Scaled (95%) Commercial break-even for the top 360 oil projects – GS | FT Alphaville Monetary Policy under Obama and Romney How your last name will doom your descendants centuries from now Clark_SurnamesandtheLawsofSocialMobility.pdf (application/pdf Object) Tim Harford — Article — The random side of riots The Coalition’s £235m wages are robbery down on the farm - Comment - Voices - The Independent Tim Harford — Article — Off the rails when the figures don’t add up The Market Monetarist « The Market Monetarist UK 2012 Q2, Quarterly National Accounts « uneconomical UK Debt & Deficits: Nominal GDP is the Elephant in the Room « uneconomical Lars Svensson for Bank of England Governor « uneconomical Chinese equities look awfully cheap – Telegraph Blogs w10002.pdf (application/pdf Object) Shock Jock - The New York Sun rationality.pdf (application/pdf Object) Repugnance.pdf (application/pdf Object) WebLearn : Courses : Home Focus: Effective tax rates | The Economist hyperinflation-table.jpg (JPEG Image, 961 × 1605 pixels) The 5 Most Surreal Financial Apocalypses from History | Cracked.com How fast can the British economy grow? – Telegraph Blogs Why the UK output gap could be a chasm | FT Alphaville Rubik’s Revolutions | FT Alphaville Don’t call it money printing, rubiks cube edition | FT Alphaville Noahpinion: Hard money and the gerontocracy Guardian Hacks’ Private Healthcare Bonanza - Guy Fawkes' blog Britons take more from the state than they give in taxes – Telegraph Blogs A Swedish Lesson For Ed Balls Anders Åslund Fiscal policy: Let go of the brakes | The Economist NGDP Targeting: An Introduction with Market Applications MoD lobbying claims: The muck and the top brass - Telegraph Parenting more significant than schools for academic success | Bang! Science Magazine Can Harvard economist's data fix our schools? It's a fact | Jerry Large | The Seattle Times David Cameron is the leader battling inequality » Spectator Blogs Austerity: Spot the difference | The Economist George Osborne's growth policy is turning British cities into Detroit UK | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian The Greek protests are not just about the economic crisis | Aditya Chakrabortty | Comment is free | The Guardian ‘Understood properly, the Death Star is not worth it.’ - The Washington Post What Washington really does - The Washington Post SMALL IS BEST from the CPS - YouTube “The rich will pay a greater share of tax” | John Rentoul | Independent Eagle Eye Blogs 0002828041301957 (application/pdf Object) Re-Targeting the Fed > Publications > National Affairs 


Bookmarked links. Maybe heavy on Scott Sumner, but these are from 2011.