Links for 08-25-16

• Fed, Eager to Show It’s Listening, Welcomes Protesters - NYTimes
• Nitpicking on nominal GDP targeting - John Quiggin
• Whom Do the Federal Reserve Bank Boards Serve? - FRB Richmond
• What the Fed Chief's Next Message Should Be - Bloomberg View
• China’s Ever More Mysterious Tourism Numbers - Brad Setser
• Smoothing economic shocks in the Eurozone - VoxEU
• Alpha Banks, Beta Banks, and negative rates - Nick Rowe
• How Much Slack is Left in US Labor Markets? - Tim Taylor
• The Infrastructure Investment Debate - EconoSpeak
• Truthful lies - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Why Corbyn’s Brexit campaign matters - mainly macro
• Balancing bias and variance in behavioral studies - Bank Underground