Links for 01-26-18

• The Economics of Dirty Old Men - Paul Krugman
• Why Has US Regional Convergence Declined? - Tim Taylor
• Consumer Confidence Is Lifting the Economy. For Now - Robert Shiller
• Public Debt. I can’t Believe we are Still There - Gloomy European Economist
• Lessons from today’s GDP report - Economic Policy Institute
• BEA: Real GDP increased at 2.6% Annualized Rate in Q4 - Calculated Risk
• Inequality and Recessions - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Is “a Stable Cryptocurrency” an Oxymoron? - Uneasy Money
• The importance of frontier knowledge for the generation of ideas - VoxEU
• Why Is Pay Lagging? Maybe Too Many Mergers in the Heartland - NYTimes
• Why Do Retail Chains Charge Uniform Prices Across Stores? - Tim Taylor
• The fatal inconsistency within neoliberalism - mainly macro
• Treasury Secretaries should stick with the strong dollar mantra - Larry Summers
• Rebasing Maddison: The shape of long-run economic development - VoxEU
• Quantum Epistemology for Business (On Measurement) - Scientific American
• "Profits = Investment - Saving" - Nick Rowe