Links for 2012-03-30

• Older Women Struggle to Make Ends Meet - NYTimes.com
• There’s more to life than money (for some) - Vox EU
• Partisan poison seeps into US Supreme Court - FT.com
• Is the Economy Growing Faster Than We Knew? - NYTimes.com
• Romney Incoherent on Pre-Existing Conditions - Political Economist
• More on Bernanke and the Gold Standard - Uneasy Money
• Excessive risk-taking by banks: A new eReport - Vox EU
• Supply and Demand Claims Another Victim - Macro Matters
• Is Eurozone Austerity Self Defeating...? - mainly macro
• In Defense of Presidential Forecasting Models - NYTimes.com
• Mass privatization bankrupted former communist countries - EurekAlert
• Is the Economy Growing Faster Than We Knew? - NYTimes.com
• Dissecting U.S. Inequality in International Perspective - Tim Taylor
• Who Captured the Fed? - Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
• Mr DeMarco, Would you consider a debt-equity swap? - Richard Green
• Skills Mismatch, Construction, and the Labor Market - Liberty Street
• Euro Area Credit: Did the ECB Wait Too Long? - Rebecca Wilder
• Thursday Roundup - Noahpinion
• Overthrow Yourself - Umair Haque
• What Are We Doing? - Jared Bernstein
• Is the GOP Still the Party of Business? - The Baseline Scenario
• Unemployment Claims Decline - Calculated Risk
• European Economic Blogs - Beat the Press
• Money - xkcd