Links for 2012-01-19

• Four Deficit Myths and a Frightening Fact - Alan Blinder
• Blogs and academic research - Digitopoly
• The History Of Capital Gains Taxes - Paul Krugman
• St. Louis Fed Says CBO Doesn’t Forecast Deficits Well - WSJ
• Correlation, Causation, Limited Mobility - James Kwak
• How the media lost the plot on US taxation - Mike Lofgren
• The Role of Safe Assets in a Financial System - Tim Taylor
• Currencies, Prices, and Mike Mussa - Paul krugman
• The FP Survey: Follow the Money - Foreign Policy
• The faster-than-fast Fourier transform - MIT News
• "Beggar-thy-neighbor" versus "beggar-thyself" - Dani Rodrik
• Different Texts for Different Economic Views - John Taylor
• A picture is worth a thousand words - Miles Corak
• Professors’ Letter in Opposition to SOPA - ctd.org