Links for 05-02-17

• Trade Wars: Then and Now - Frances Woolley
• Costs of overconfidence - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Persistent economic slowdown and debt-ridden borrowers - VoxEU
• US housing credit policies and their macroeconomic effects - VoxEU
• Why Brexit means more than Brexit - mainly macro
• Inequality & American Democracy - National Review
• Trump’s Tax Cuts May Be More Damaging Than Reagan’s - NYTimes
• All the President's Friends: Political Access and Firm Value - NBER
• Ill-gotten gains are worth less in the brain - EurekAlert!
• PhD Vouchers - Frances Woolley
• The Ethics Of A New York Times Subscription - Mike the Mad Biologist
• Snapshots of Merger and Acquisition Activity - Tim Taylor
• Ending Too Big to Fail: Resolution Edition - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz