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In Lieu of a Focus Post: March 2, 2015 - Washington Center for Equitable Growth

While I found things sufficiently intriguing to be worth a focus post today, I have not been able to get one into good enough shape to pass the quality bar imposed by my internal quality censor. Therefore: In lieu of a focus post: Nick Bunker, Adam Ozimek, and Richard Freeman; Frances Coppola and Olivier Blanchard; Cosma Shalizi; Paul Krugman and Marty Feldstein; Tim Duy; Richard Reeves; and Janet Currie–all of whom are greatly worth paying detailed and careful attention to, and are among those whom one disagrees with at one’s intellectual peril:

Noted for Your Evening Procrastination for February 1, 2015 (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)

Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog Ezra Klein: Baker's Dozen Sample of Weblogs Morning-Must Read: Nouriel Roubini: On Secular Stagnation Ezra Klein: What Andrew Sullivan's Exit Says Miles Kimball: John Stuart Mill on the Rich and the Elite Plus: Things to Read on the Evening of January 31, 2015 Must- and Shall-Reads: George Dvorsky: "Scientists from Stanford Medical Center have devised a technique for extending the length of human telomeres..." Bill McBride: Demographics and GDP: 2% Is the New 4% Joschka Fischer: A Greek Burial for German Austerity Roger Farmer: The Natural Rate Hypothesis: Past Its Sell-by Date Gavyn Davies: How negative can interest rates go? Alan Benson, Raimundo Esteva, Frank S. Levy: Dropouts, Taxes and Risk: The Economic Return to College under Realistic Assumptions Ezra Klein: Baker's Dozen Sample of Weblogs Nouriel Roubini: On Secular Stagnation Ezra Klein: What Andrew Sullivan's Exit Says Mile Kimball: John Stuart Mill on the Rich and the Elite Robert Waldmann: A Question for Those Skeptical about Fiscal Stimulus And Over Here: