Links 8-21-16

“In the land of the free, where home ownership is a national dream, borrowing to buy a house is a government business for which taxpayers are on the hook.”

“If you think that there has never been a better time to be alive — that humanity has never been safer, healthier, more prosperous or less unequal — then you’re in the minority. But that is what the evidence incontrovertibly shows.”

Noah Smith criticizes heterodox macro

And then addresses some of the responses

The Solution to High Rents: Build More Houses. Who would have thought?

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