links for 2009-09-03

• White House to Propose Bigger Reserves at Banks - NYTimes.com
• New goods in a Malthusian world - voxeu.org
• What About Forum Shopping? - Credit Slips
• FSA’s Turner backs ‘living wills’ for banks - FT Alphaville
• The Fed on Simulus: Seems To Be Helping - Real Time Economics
• Grading Exams: 100, 99, 98,...Or A, B, C? - SSRN- - Dubey and Geanakoplos
• A risk-management plan to help prevent financial crises - Harvard Magazine
• Government as Risk Manager - Tom Baker and David Moss
• Pre- Darwinian Macroeconomics - Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
• US use of private contractors in war hits record high - csmonitor.com
• And It Ain't Shinola... - EconoSpeak
• And It Ain't Shinola... II - EconoSpeak
• Europe's oldest axes discovered - Scientific American
• The Divisions in the White House Over Health-Care Reform - Ezra Klein
• Fun with real estate leverage and diversification - Richard Green
• FOMC Minutes, August 11-12, 2009 - FRB
• More fun juxtapositions - Free exchange
• When Does Consciousness Arise in Human Babies? - Scientific American
• Reading Comprehension and the WSJ - Matthew Yglesias