Noted for Your Afternoon Procrastination for September 14, 2014

Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog

Nick Bunker: Weekend reading - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Lunchtime Must-Read: Dietz Volrath: Taxes and Growth - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
What, Theoretically, Is a "Recession"? (Early) Monday Focus for September 15, 2014 - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Morning Must-Read: Nick Rowe: What's Special About Monetary Coordination Failures? - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Lunchtime Must-Watch: Rethinking Economics - Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Morning Must-Read: Bryan Caplan: The Case for Open Borders - Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Plus:

Things to Read on the Afternoon of September 14, 2014 - Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Must- and Shall-Reads:

Richard Mayhew: Healthcare 2020
Barry Eichengreen: Restructuring Debt Restructuring
Kahn-Rich Productivity Model Update (August 2014)
Bill McBride: Calculated Risk FOMC Preview

 

Dylan Matthews:
Liveblogging the American Revolution: September 14, 1776: George Washington Decides to Evacuate New York (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)
Over at Equitable Growth: What, Theoretically, Is a "Recession"? (Early) Monday Focus for September 15, 2014 (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)

Should Be Aware of:

Richard Layard: The Importance of Mental Health

 

Chris Morran (2013): On 5-Year Anniversary Of Mortgage Meltdown, Those Responsible Are Doing Just Fine "Former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld... with several hundred million dollars in his pocket... has got homes in Connecticut, Florida, and Idaho, and he’s now running his own consulting firm, Matrix Advisors.... Former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne isn’t working as hard as Fuld... is holed up in the Plaza Hotel with Heloise, playing in online bridge tournaments.... Merrill Lynch lost $8 billion under the leadership of Stanley O’Neal.... He took his $165 million golden parachute and traded it for aluminum, landing a seat on the board of Alcoa. Ken Lewis’s hubris... Bank of America snatching up Countrywide and Merrill Lynch... didn’t really do his due diligence... walked away with around a quarter of a billion dollars.... Countrywide... Stanford Kurland... second in command.... Kurland bailed on Countrywide in 2006... cashed in $200 million... quietly forming a Countrywide clone called PennyMac..."

Martin Longman: The Very Serious Rand Paul: "Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that if he became president he would repeal all previous executive orders. 'I think the first executive order that I would issue would be to repeal all previous executive orders', he said, according to Breitbart News. Isn’t that a great idea? 'Repealing all executive orders has the potential to undo a large amount of policy. Executive orders, for example, ban assassinations by the United States and organize intelligence agencies under the Director of National Intelligence.' Hmm. Maybe it’s not such a great idea. '"Senator Paul’s statement was meant to emphasize this president’s overt and unconstitutional executive orders, it was not meant to be taken literally", Paul spokesman Sergio Gor wrote in an email.' Alrighty then. Never mind. I take it that this falls in the same category as serial plagiarism. It doesn’t matter if you said it or pretended to write it because it wasn’t intended to be taken seriously."