Notable: March 2019

• For Some in Japan, Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt Doesn’t Sound So Bad  By Megumi Fujikawa and Kosaku Narioka, The Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2019 [The IMF puts Japan’s debt at roughly 240% of GDP, but an antiausterity movement there argues now is the time to borrow more.]
•  Examining an MMT model in detail  by Noah Smith, Noahpinion (blog), March 31, 2019
• Modern Monetary Theory Makes Sense, Up to a Point  By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, March 29, 2019
•  How the rich, the poor and the rest of us make and spend our money  By Shawn Langlois, MarketWatch, March 21, 2019
• The most consequential, and least informed, decision that college students make  By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, March 29, 2019
• The Costs of Inflation  by Miles Kimball, Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal, March 28, 2019
• How high can Britain’s minimum wage go?  The Economist, March 28, 2019
• Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)  By Charlotte Lieberman, The New York Times, March 25, 2019
• Medicare for All Would Abolish Private Insurance. ‘There’s No Precedent in American History.’ By Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, March 23, 2019
• Don’t Make Health Care a Purity Test  By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 21, 2019
• Why Should Americans Be Grateful for $137 Insulin? Germans Get It for $55  By Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times, March 21, 2019
• What are central banks for?  by Adam Tooze, Social Europe, on 18th March 2019
• You Never Know When a Recession Will Sneak Up on You  By Austan Goolsbee, The New York Times, March 15, 2019
• How Much Does Getting Into an Elite College Actually Matter? By Kevin Carey, The New York Times, March 15, 2019
• Don’t Blame Robots for Low Wages by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 14, 2019 
• Amazon gets an edge with its secret squad of PhD economists  By Lydia DePillis, CNN Business, March 13, 2019
• Hong Kong Spends Nearly $700 Million to Bolster Currency  By Saumya Vaishampayan, The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2019
• Long-Classified Memo Surfaces Warning of ‘Perfect Storm’ From Invading Iraq  By Warren P. Strobel, The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2019
• British Panel Calls for Stricter Antitrust Rules on Tech Giants  By Adam Satariano, The New York Times, March 12, 2019
• The Report
• Lessons from the East Asian Economic Miracle   by Byrne Hobart, Medium, March 11, 2019
•  Workers suddenly have more power to demand higher pay and better jobs  By Heather Long, The Washington Post, March 8, 2019
• Spain’s Minimum Wage Just Jumped. The Debate Is Continuing.  By Liz Alderman, The New York Times, March 7, 2019
• Why Trump’s Effort to Narrow the Trade Gap Has Flopped So Far By Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2019
• How Goes the Trade War?  By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 3, 2019
• Suggests that the US is the proverbial "small country" of trade theory
• A Well-Meaning Job Training Bill That May Hurt More Than Help By Kevin Carey, The New York Times, March 1, 2019
• Paul Krugman Asked Me About Modern Monetary Theory. Here Are 4 Answers. by Stephanie Kelton, Bloomberg Opinion, March 1, 2019
• Krugman's response, Twitter thread