Links for 04-03-17

• A Stroll through US Trade Statistics, and How It Always Balances - Tim Taylor
• Education, Student Debt, and Homeownership - Liberty Street Economics
• My conservative market-based case for how to fix health insurance - Tim Haab
• Trump’s Budget Director Gets Social Security Disability Insurance Wrong - CBPP
• The case for a higher inflation target gets stronger - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• How to Make Tax Reform Bipartisan - Jason Furman
• Securitisation, credit risk and lending standards revisited - ECB
• ‘Metrics Monday: One IV for Two Endogenous Variable, and Testing for Mechanisms - Marc Bellemare
• ‘The Production of Money’ - Ann Pettifor
• Wisdom gleaned from data and behavioral economics - MIT News
• More Newt Gingrich's in Washington Than You Might Think - ProMarket
• Voluntary Restraint in the Age of President Trump - Matthew Kahn
• The spread of modern manufacturing to the poor periphery - VoxEU
• Smoke pollution and health in the 19th century - VoxEU
• Trust me, I'm an economist ... - macromom
• Observation, measurement, and explanation - Understanding Society
• Plain Speaking - Stephen Williamson
• Illiberal Stagnation - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Read Some Econometrics this Month! - Dave Giles
• The Gold Standard, the Great Depression, and the Brilliance of NES Students... - Doug Campbell