Links for 02-16-17

• Make Big Banks Put 20% Down—Just Like Home Buyers Do - WSJ
• This (by Judy Shelton) Makes No Sense - Econbrowser
• Tutorial for Judy Shelton on Currency Manipulation - Uneasy Money
• Brexit and Trump: a failure of the political right - mainly macro
• Monopolies Are Worse Than We Thought - Noah Smith
• Houses as ATMs No Longer - Liberty Street Economics
• For a democratic Euro-zone government -Thomas Piketty
• Japan must form a bulwark to protect globalisation - VoxEU
• A case for keeping the Fed's balance sheet large - MacroMania
• Why the Middle East Fell Behind - Jared Rubin
• Update on the Social Cost of Carbon - Tim Taylor
• Low job mobility - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Scoring DBCFT - EconoSpeak