Links for 05-05-17

• Trends in US absolute income mobility since 1940 - VoxEU
• Arguments against basic income are straw men - VoxEU
• Committee Decisions and Monetary Policy Rules - Stanley Fischer
• 125 Years of Women's Participation in the Economy - Janet Yellen
• House Panel Approves Bill to Weaken Dodd-Frank - The New York Times
• Regulating Wall Street: What Needs to Happen Next? - Tim Taylor
• How Zombie Companies Stop Productivity Growth - Bloomberg
• Unemployment Has Nowhere to Go But Up for Trump - Noah Smith
• Productivity, Technology, and Demographics – IMF Blog
• William Baumol: Truly Productive Entrepreneurship - A Fine Theorem
• Rosy Forecasts of Growth Likely to Produce Unrealistic Budget Estimates - CBPP
• Animal Spirits in a Monetary Model - Roger Farmer and Konstantin Platonov
• Why Did Trump Accept Venezuela’s Money? - Kenneth Rogoff