Links for 05-30-2013

• Do falling tax rates explain the rising incomes of the top 1%? - Miles Corak
• QE and Stock Markets: Boom or Crash? - Antonio Fatas
• Gains from trade: Firms and productivity - Vox EU
• This Time is Not So Different: The Euro Crisis and the 1840s - Carola Binder
• The Spinal Tap Approach to Government Loan Accounting - Jared Bernstein
• The Fed's tricky messaging: Tapering is not tightening - Ylan Q. Mui
• NPR: How Much Should We Trust Economics? - Supply-Side Liberal
• Austerity will drag hard on the economy in 2013 and 2014 - EPI
• The Fed's been keeping the economy afloat. That's the problem. - Neil Irwin
• High Debt/GDP Primarily a Result of Slower Growth - Brad DeLong
• Some International Minimum Wage Comparisons - Tim Taylor
• A Way to Tax Corporations That They Cannot Escape - Dean Baker
• Kids, Poverty, Safety Net, Recession…Over at TAP - Jared Bernstein
• Why Can’t America Be Sweden? - NYT
• Piggy Banks - Liberty Street Economics
• Stiglitz on globalization - ataxingmatter
• The Irish Recovery - Dean Baker
• The Neverending Irish Success Story - Paul Krugman
• Data, Theory and Central Bank Models - mainly macro
• The Case for a Profit Motive in Conserving the Environment - NYT
• Natural Resources and Political Institutions: Democracy - Why Nations Fail
• Volcker Plans to Restore Faith in Government - NYT
• Rate Stories - Paul Krugman