Links (7/30/18)

• Why One Quarter’s Growth Tells Us Nothing - Paul Krugman
• A la recherche of the roots of US inequality “exceptionalism” - globalinequality
• Checking phones in lectures can cost half a grade in exams - EurekAlert
• What Is the White House Whispering to the Fed? - Narayana Kocherlakota
• The decline of northern England, 1780–2018 - VoxEU
• Monetary policy for the next recession - Gavyn Davies
• The (Limited) Power of Exchange rates - EconoMonitor
• Homeopathic Bayes... - Brad DeLong
• The World Trade Historical Database - VoxEU
• Learning the Right Lessons From the Financial Crisis - Greg Mankiw
• Germany: Government Begins Unveiling Its Anti Trump Coalition - Spiegel
• U.S. GDP Report Clears Path for Two More Fed Rate Hikes - Tim Duy
• The economy’s great. That doesn’t mean Trumponomics is. - Washington Post