Links for 10-13-17

• Rethinking Monetary Policy in a New Normal - Lael Brainard
• Independent Workers and Policy: Krueger's Moynihan Lecture - Tim Taylor
• The ubiquitous Spanish dollar—a photo essay - Moneyness
• Ten years after the crisis: Looking back, looking forward - VoxEU
• Monetary easing and the Bank of Japan's balance sheet - VoxEU
• Just how tight is the U.S. labor market? - Equitable Growth
• Richard Thaler, Nobel laureate - VoxEU
• The Lost US Lead in Education - Tim Taylor
• We’re About to Fall Behind the Great Depression - The New York Times
• Hassett’s Evidence on Transfer Pricing and the U.S. Trade Deficit - EconoSpeak
• Trade effects of deep agreements - VoxEU
• Quantifying the effect of the Bank of Japan’s equity purchases - VoxEU
• Long-Term U.S. Treasury Bonds Have Lost Their 'Specialness' - NBER Digest
• Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee - The Fed