links for 2009-04-14

• A Non-Socratic Dialogue on Social Welfare Functions - Brad DeLong
• Senate to Uber-Rich: "Help Is on the Way" - Bob Greenstein
• Boldly Going Nowhere - NYTimes.com
• The assumption that almost destroyed finance - Free exchange
• Why more criticism of macro? - TVHE
• Single-Lever Macro - Arnold Kling
• Congress threatens the Fed's independence - The Economist
• How mortgage backed securities increased systemic risk - realitybase
• There is No Free Lunch in Central Banking - David Beckworth
• Believing in Fiscal Stimulus - MacroMania
• Bank regulation needs straightening out - FT
• “Some economists” - TheMoneyIllusion
• More on Estate Tax "reform" - ataxingmatter
• An interview with Michael Perelman - Politics and Culture
• The US Health Care Rip-Off - The Finance Buff
• Merton on the financial crisis - Information Processing
• False Economy - FT.com
• Call For an Even More Explicit Inflation Commitment - Real Time Economics