Links 8-21-16Chris SurroAug 21, 2016Share"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 macroAnd then addresses some of the responsesThe Solution to High Rents: Build More Houses. Who would have thought?