Links for 02-09-18

• No Fairy, No Cry - Paul Krugman
• Do Not Overlook the December Trade Data - Brad Setser
• What Bitcoin Reveals About Financial Markets - John Quiggin
• What Do Cryptocurrencies Have to Do with Trust? - Liberty Street
• Fisherian Decomposition of Interest Rate Increase - Econbrowser
• Technology, power & ideology - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Decreasing the size of the state is very unpopular - mainly macro
• Economic predictions with big data: The illusion of sparsity - VoxEU
• The Chinese banking system - VoxEU
• Olympic Economics - Tim Taylor
• The origins of money - FT