Links for 01-13-18

• The search for the next president of the NY Fed is a big deal - Josh Bivens
• Tight money is not the answer to weak productivity growth - Obstfeld and Duval
• Does Retirement Raise the Risk of Death? - Tim Taylor
• Financial variables and macroeconomic forecast errors - Fed in Print
• Debt issuance activity after the global financial crisis - All About Finance
• The Fed Delivered $80.2 Billion in Profits to the Treasury in 2017 - NY Times
• Wall Street versus Main Street: IOER Edition - David Beckworth
• Ready or Not for the Next Recession? - Barry Eichengreen
• Measuring the "Free" Digital Economy - Tim Taylor
• Biased to the powerful - Stumbling and Mumbling
• What early-20th-century scholars got right about 21st-century politics - Vox
• Lowflation: Then and Now - MacroMania
• Now is the time for complacency: RBA vs Bank of England - Nicholas Gruen
• The Fed’s Inflation Target and Policy Rules - John Taylor
• Unauthorized Immigration: Effects and Policy Responses - FRB Richmond
• GDP at risk - VoxEU