Links for 12-20-16

• Reality TV Populism - Paul Krugman
• A Computer Can’t Do the Fed’s Job - WSJ
• Bad News for America’s Workers - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Kudlow Is a Troubling Economics Adviser for Trump - Noah Smith
• Why a gold standard is a very bad idea - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• The Bank Charter Act goes on trial in 1847 - Bank Underground
• Dust Bowl would devastate today’s crops, study finds - UChicago News
• China’s November Reserve Drain - Brad Setser
• Americans are Moving Less - Tim Taylor
• Machines as Bureaucrats - RegBlog
• The decline of public service - Stumbling and Mumbling
• The physics of phase transitions - Understanding Society
• ‘Metrics Monday: Testing for Mechanisms - Marc Bellemare
• When Can Trend-Cycle Decompositions Be Trusted? - FRB
• The International Barriers to Trump’s Economic Plan - Mohamed El-Erian
• Not All Measures of GDP are Created Equal - Dave Giles
• What is wrong with Italy's economy? - Centre for European Reform
• Understanding free trade - mainly macro