links for 2009-02-06

• In defense of economists - Free exchange
• Government has the Right to Limit Compensation - Lucian Bebchuk
• He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune - Capital Gains and Games
• Please Raise My Taxes - NYTimes.com
• Fiscal vs monetary policy, globally - Nick Rowe
• There is no accounting for priorities - macroblog
• Economic Know-Nothingism - The Big Money
• Senate Republicans: Playing Politics When the Economy Burns - Robert Reich
• Attacks on Recovery Package Don't Withstand Scrutiny - cbpp
• Votes and violence - voxeu.org
• More armchair macroeconomist blogging - Greed, Green and Grains
• Why are the Fed and the Treasury Working Against Each Other? - Andy Harless
• The Harsh Impact On Consumption Of Lost Home Equity - Bruce Bartlett
• Please Go Away–II - Swampland
• Downturn looks worse when it should be getting better - Brad Setser
• A Plan for Economic Recovery - Soros - Project Syndicate
• Obama must fight the protectionist virus - FT
• Economists are the forgotten guilty men - Times Online
• Chinn ... hit[s] it out of the park - Angry Bear
• Buy American is bad for America (and everyone else) - voxeu.org
• Infrastructure needs a bill of its own - Ed Glaeser
• Economic reports across the Pacific - News N Economics