Links for 01-18-17

• Long live populism! - Thomas Piketty
• Fake Economics and the media - mainly macro
• The Discount Rate for the Social Cost of Carbon - RegBlog
• Monetary Policy in a Time of Uncertainty - Lael Brainard
• Evolving Consumer Behavior - Bill Dudley
• Shilling for Bitcoins - Uneasy Money
• Ending too big to fail - VoxEU
• Finance and growth: The direction of causality - VoxEU
• Royal Economic Society Webcasts on Econometrics - Dave Giles
• China’s Reserves Fell by Around $45 Billion in December - Brad Setser
• Signals intelligence and the management of military competition - Understanding Society
• The Evolution of Medicaid and Health Financing Reform - Tim Taylor
• On Brexit over-optimism - Stumbling and Mumbling