links for 2009-04-03

• What Really Happened to Consumer Spending - BusinessWeek
• Former Treasury Official Releases Tell-All - Economy Watch  
• What Was Going on Inside the Paulson Treasury? - Real Time Economics
• Causes of the Oil Shock of 2007-08 - Econbrowser
• Econbrowser: Consequences of the Oil Shock of 2007-08 - Econbrowser
• “The banks” versus “some banks” - Paul Krugman
• Is $700 billion enough? Clearing up the confusion - Keith Hennessey
• Credibility is key to policy success - Martin Wolf
• Rethinking the Japanese Experience - James Surowiecki
• Being Isaac Newton: Computer derives natural laws from raw data - EurekAlert
• Here's a stupid way to fix the banks: Change the rules! - Andrew Leonard
• FASB Approves New Rules on Mortgage Securities - NYTimes.com
• Stressed Out on Struggle Street - Andrew Leigh
• Ideas and interests - Dani Rodrik
• China's Stimulus Is Working - The Big Money
• Explaining Fiscal Foolishness - Scientific American
• How to improve the Geithner plan - noiseFromAmeriKa
• Mysterious Dark Matter Possibly Detected - LiveScience
• The Mark-to-Market Myth - The Baseline Scenario
• MIT economists see a few bright spots - MIT News