Links (9/11/18)

• Trade, Inflation Targeting, and Central Bank Independence - PIIE
• The Stable-Coin Myth - Barry Eichengreen
• On the Debt Non-Spiral - Paul Krugman
• Parrots Barter Tokens for Food. - The New York Times
• Social-nativism, the Italian nightmare - Thomas Piketty
• Vaulting Workers Into the Middle Class With High Pay - Larry Summers
• The financial transmission of housing bubbles - VoxEU
• Is the Great Moderation back? ~ Antonio Fatas
• Opinion | Democrats Are Credible on Health Care - Paul Krugman
• The Fiscal Response to the Great Recession - Jason Furman
• Economists' statement in support of Atif Mian - Dani Rodrik
• Whither Labor Force Participation? - Liberty Street Economics
• What Should the Fed Own? - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Dollarize Argentina - John Cochrane
• The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross - NBER
• Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers - NBER
• Mapping the boom in nonbank mortgage lending—and understanding the risks - Brookings
• China's Belt and Road Initiative: Grand or Grandiose? - Tim Taylor
• The Prime-Age Workforce and Labor Market Polarization - FRBSF
• The Other Shoe - Economic Principals
• Doubts about wage-led growth - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Could Central Banks do More during the Crisis? - Gloomy European Economist
• Is Sweden failing on immigration? - Lane Kenworthy
• Subsidising growth: An argument for pro-business policies in emerging markets - VoxEU
• Meet The Four-Dimensional Numbers That Led to Modern Algebra - Wired