links for 2009-05-06

• Study plunges standard theory of cosmology into crisis - EurekAlert
• Central banks must target more than just inflation - Martin Wolf
• Marriage meets the Joneses - voxeu.org
• Competition: The missing ingredient of American democracy - New Deal 2.0
• The PPIP: keep banks out - Lucian Bebchuk
• Vote Nears on Inquiry Over Economic Crisis - NYTimes.com
• Shoud global capital flows be pumped back up to boom levels? - Brad Setser
• How Big Should the Financial Services Industry Be ? - Angry Bear
• How soldiers really vote - Andrew Gelman