Links for 07-30-15

• Why Americans Are Nostalgic About Manufacturing - Brad DeLong
• US cities and productivity in the railroad era - Vox EU
• What the leaked Fed forecasts tell us - Gavyn Davies
• State Growth Versus National Growth - Paul Krugman
• Inequality is Central to the Productivity-Pay Gap - Larry Mishel
• Supply - Side Policies in the Depression: Evidence from France - BEHL
• The state of tax progressivity across the United States - Nick Bunker
• Treason charges: What lurks behind the bizarre allegations - Yanis Varoufakis
• The rewards for working hard are too big for Keynes’s vision - Tim Harford
• Financial frictions, product quality, and international trade - Vox EU
• Wall St. Money Meets Social Policy at Rikers Island - The New York Times
• There Was No Place Like Canada - Alt-M
• To Fix the Fed, Simplify It - The New York Times
• China’s New Normal Is in the Making - FRBSF
• Snapshots of the Global Energy - Tim Taylor