links for 2009-01-03

• Taleb vs Merton, Cont. - Felix Salmon
• The definitive account of the Fanniefredderung - The Curious Capitalist
• FDR and the New Deal: Did it prolong the Great Depression? (No...) - Salon
• What I really think about Finance - Robert Waldmann
• Tyler Cowen: Statist, anti-Rothbardian agent of the Kochtopus - Justin Fox
• Refuted economic doctrines #1: efficient markets hypothesis — Crooked Timber
• Efficient markets and terrorism futures - Andrew Gelman
• In Obama’s Team, 2 Camps on Climate - NYTimes.com
• Who Saw The Housing Bubble Coming? - Bruce Bartlett
• Ignoring the Oracles - Real Time Economics
• Rethinking urbanisation - voxeu.org
• Central banks and financial crises: Lessons from Latin America - voxeu.org
• For now, stick with the non-seasonal numbers - News N Economics
• What Led to the Financial Meltdown - NYTimes.com
• S&P Case-Shiller House Price Graphs for October - Calculated Risk
• Bowl Games Deliver Me Into the Hands of the Far Left - The Plank