Links (7/18/18)

• The G.O.P.’s War on the Poor - Paul Krugman
• The geography of consumption - VoxEU
• The Circa-1870 Disjunction Between Production and Distribution - Brad DeLong
• The Premium for Money-Like Assets - Liberty Street Economics
• Powell Wants to Create Some Mystery Around Fed Meetings - Bloomberg
• Comey, the New York Times, Obama and the Lucas Critique - Cheap Talk
• Downward causation - Understanding Society
• The economics of blockchains - VoxEU
• FedViews - FRBSF