• Suggesting that the President tap TARP’s Hardest Hit Fund to help Detroit.
• On the July jobs report: previewing the report on jobs day eve and laying out some first impressions of the data.
• In the wake of the July jobs report, wondering if the Fed’s next move is really all that mysterious.
• Looking at the White House’s new corporate-tax-cuts-for-jobs proposal.
• Delving into the new GDP report and revisions back to the beginning of time (that’s 1929 in government accounting), and more on the revisions with Dean Baker in a NYT op-ed.
• Analyzing the necessity for revenue-neutral tax reform: based on the numbers, how urgent is it?
• Explaining the challenge of tax reform: selling it is like a selling a price without a product.
• A few pieces over at the NYT Economix blog: on the President’s tax cuts for jobs trade, an economy stuck in second gear, and Republican budget opposition.
• Laying out the 15^th and 16^th editions of Sequester Watch.
• A new piece on globalization, inequality, YOYOs, and WITTs.

Music: More jazz piano in this week’s Friday Musical Interlude featuring Hank Jones.