Links for 8-15-14

• The Supply-Side Case for Government Redistribution - Alan Blinder
• US homeowners stay unemployed for longer - Lindau Economics
• Bitcoin versus the Dollar - Haubrich and Orr
• Leaky repo deals present new concerns - FT.com
• The risks to the UK recovery are fiscal not monetary - mainly macro
• Europe’s Greater Depression is worse than the 1930s - The Washington Post
• More on the Welfare Consequences of Stimulus Spending - Orderstatistic
• Are foreign takeovers getting domestic cherries or lemons? - vox
• Peer-to-Peer Lending Is Poised to Grow - Demyanyk and Kolliner
• Is there a ‘taste for discrimination’? - vox
• Is the Division of Labor a Form of Enslavement? - Tim Taylor
• Common Pools and Wage Funds -- A Reply to Wren-Lewis - EconoSpeak
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims increase to 311,000 - Calculated Risk