Economy News August 3rd 2015

Working age real median household income (very nerdy)
Why last week's poor median wage report should set your hair on fire about the next recession
US Equity and Economic Review: Weaker Breadth Indicators, Edition
Are average Americans better off now than in 2008?
US Equity and Economic Review: Weaker Breadth Indicators, Edition
Paul Krugman: America’s Un-Greek Tragedies in Puerto Rico and Appalachia
‘The Revolt Against the Ruling Class’
Links for 08-03-15
‘Freshwater’s Wrong Turn’
‘The Myth of Mobility’
Links for 08-02-15
‘Lehman Brothers Once Again…’
Privatization
‘Microfoundations 2.0?’
Links for 08-01-15
‘There May be a Complex Market Living in Your Gut ‘
Paul Romer: Freshwater Feedback on Mathiness
Pictures of Austerity
‘U.S. Paychecks Grow at Record-Slow Pace’
Video: NBER Feldstein Lecture by Alan Krueger on Labor Force Participation
Paul Krugman: China’s Naked Emperors
Links for 07-31-15
Fed Watch: GDP Report
‘Dentists and Skin in the Game’
Higher-Than-Expected Second Quarter Growth
Links for 07-30-15
Fed Watch: FOMC Recap
What Is ‘Price Theory’?
FOMC Press Release
‘Using Math to Obfuscate — Observations from Finance
‘Spare Tire? Stock Markets, Banking Crises, and Economic Recoveries’
‘Second-best Macroeconomics’
Links for 07-29-15
The Politics of Economics and ‘Very Serious People’
‘Should Central Bankers Stick to Talking about Monetary Policy?’
Is Content Aggregation Harmful?
‘Are We Overestimating Inflation (Again?)’
Links for 07-28-15
Paul Krugman: Zombies Against Medicare
‘Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth’
‘Debt Miracle: Why the Country that Borrowed the Most Industrialized First’
Links for 07-27-15
‘The F Story about the Great Inflation’
Links for 07-26-15
‘The Rise in Obesity’
‘The Old Man and the CPI’
Survey of Long-Term Interest Rates
Links for 07-25-15
‘Raise the Gas Tax Already’
‘What Is Wrong with the West’s Economies?’
‘The Housing Market Still Isn’t Rational’
Paul Krugman: The M.I.T. Gang
Links for 07-24-15
‘Socialism, American-Style’
‘Postsecondary Institutions Appear to have Surprisingly Similar Net Impacts on Student Growth’