Links (4/18/19)

• The Captain Swing Riots; Workers and Threshing Machines in the 1830s - Tim Taylor
• Shocks and labour cost adjustment – Bank Underground
• US Firms Are Less Dynamic Than They Used To Be - PIIE
• FedViews - FRBSF
• Is Low Inflation Really a Mystery? - Macro Musings
• Modern monetary theory: the dose makes the poison - Social Europe
• U.S. Economy: Fed Needs to Start Fighting the Next Recession Now - Bloomberg
• Changing policy rule parameters - FRB Cleveland
• The Evolution of the FOMC’s Explicit Inflation Target - FRBSF
• Shocking economics - EurekAlert
• When US Market Access is No Longer a Trump Card - Tim Taylor
• US achievement gaps hold steady in the face of substantial policy initiatives - VoxEU
• Qualifying for the Fed - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Central Bank Independence Faces Another Test - Economic Principals
• The Portfolio Theory of Inflation (and policy effectiveness) - Biagio Bossone
• Broad-spectrum policies - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Replacing the Phillips Curve: I showed you my macro model. Now show me your macro model - Roger E. A. Farmer