links for 2007-08-25

• Citigroup Gets Fed Help on Using Discount Window - WSJ Economics Blog
• A more detailed view of the Great Quant Meltdown of 2007 - The Curious Capitalist
• Historian: Bush use of quote ‘perverse' - Avi Zenilman - Politico.com
• Politicians are overprotected and isolated - Bruno Frey
• How to get good public services through choice and competition - Julian Le Grand
• Playing the 'Genocide' Card in Iraq - Rick Perlstein
• Central bank impotence and market liquidity - Henry Liu
• Nordic vs American exceptionalism - Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
• New York Fed Accepts Asset-Backed Paper as Collateral - Bloomberg.com
• On Vacation, All by Myself - New York Times
• Who Will Pay for the Next Hurricane? - New York Times
• NASA Believes It Has Found Reason Foam Fell on Shuttle - New York Times
• A new intelligence report paints a bleak picture of Iraq - McClatchy

Comments

[anne]

"Citigroup Gets Fed Help on Using Discount Window": I mentioned before that the Federal Reserve had encouraged several prime American banks to use the discount window, though there has been no need on the part of the banks. I have come on no satisfactory explanation.