Links for 2011-12-23

• House Republican Leaders Agree to Extend Tax Cut Temporarily - NYT
• Expansionary Austerity – After the Zombies - Crooked Timber
• Fed May Signal Low Rates Into 2014 - WSJ.com
• The economics of art and the art of economics - Vox EU
• Do Low Corporate Tax Rates Attract Inward Investment? - The Monkey Cage
• Monetary Policy Is Not Just Another Name for Fiscal Policy - Uneasy Money
• Why Not Just Give Poor People Cash? - Rortybomb
• The Subtle ECB - Paul Krugman
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decline to 364,000 - Calculated Risk
• What Happened to the WTO’s Original Food Security Agenda? - TripleCrisis
• No One Is Above the Law, Even Megabanks - Simon Johnson
• The Meaning of Mercury - Paul Krugman