Links for 08-24-16

• The Fed and Lehman Brothers - Laurence Ball
• The Impact of Inequality on Social Capital - The Unassuming Economist
• The dirty little secret of central banking - The Washington Post
• Trump’s Fiscal Brainstorm: Cut Taxes for the Rich - Econbrowser
• Combatting External and Internal Regulatory Capture - ProMarket
• How domestic trade frictions shape welfare gains - VoxEU
• The Folly of Prudence, IMF Edition - Paul Krugman
• Recession Probabilities - FRB Cleveland
• The Illusion of Lagging Productivity - Bloomberg View
• Human footprint outpaced by population and economic growth - EurekAlert
• Precision versus bias in multiple choice exams - VoxEU
• Bonuses: here to stay - Stumbling and Mumbling
• On Blanchard - Robert Waldmann
• Minority rule: Migration, Brexit and Mandates - mainly macro
• Don't Lowball the Upside of Fixing Roads and Bridges - Bloomberg View
• Global and Local Housing Markets - The Unassuming Economist