Links for 2011-12-22

• For Foer, a Lifelong Passion for Fighting Monopolies - NYTimes.com
• I shall now debunk the "Great Vacation" in one sentence - Noahpinion
• Concentrated Poverty - Dionissi Aliprantis and Mary Zenker
• Information and Entropy Econometrics - Dave Giles
• The ECB, eternal and infinite - The Economist
• Delusions of helplessness, monetarist edition - Noahpinion
• Inequality Tax Trigger: The Brandeis Ratio Explained - Freakonomics
• The New International Economic Disorder - Mohamed A. El-Erian
• The Broad Sovereign Downgrade - The Wilder View
• European financial tensions and the Fed - Econbrowser
• Are Recoveries from Financial Crises Really So Different? - FRB
• Cutting Pell Grants Is Unnecessary and Unwise - CBPP
• Reforming Repo Rules - Mark Roe
• Nobody Could Have Predicted - Paul Krugman