Links for 02-27-16

• The declining LF participation rate for middle-aged males - Tyler Cowen
• Sanders and the Case for a New Economic-Stimulus Package - John Cassidy
• Does Regression Produce Estimates of Causal Effects? - A Fine Theorem
• The Ongoing, Fraudulent Assault on Seattle's Min Wage - The Big Picture
• Economic Forecasting Models and the Sanders' Controversy - James Galbraith
• Authority Figures Criticizing Junk Science from Gerald Friedman - EconoSpeak
• The benefit from reducing income inequality in terms of GDP - Simon Voigts
• Is sterling ever a fashionable currency? - Bank Underground
• Romer and Romer on Friedman - Paul Krugman
• Values, directions, and action - Understanding Society
• What Happened to the Great Divergence? - Lael Brainard
• Managers and productivity differences - VoxEU
• Stuff Keeps Getting Cheaper - Justin Fox
• Negative rates, negative reactions - VoxEU
• Facts About Billionaires - Tim Taylor
• History-bound re-elections - VoxEU