Links for 07-24-2012

• A Closer Look at Middle Class Decline - NYTimes.com
• A Foolish Lack Of Terror - Paul Krugman
• How big is the output gap? - macroblog
• Bye Buy Zero Lower Bound? - Barkley Rosser
• A slowdown is good for China and the world - FT.com
• Playing with Fire in the Eurozone - mainly macro
• Free Money - Paul Krugman
• Herding sheep really are selfish - EurekAlert
• Behavioural economics and the Lucas critique - Nick Rowe
• Government Researchers Really Did Invent the Internet - SciAm
• Creating a Countercyclical Welfare System - Sasha Abramsky
• The European ban on naked sovereign credit default swaps - vox
• How Did Time Use Change in the Recession? - Tim Taylor
• Income Evolution at BHCs - Liberty Street
• US unemployment: Neither natural nor unnatural - vox
• Fed Official Wants Tougher Volcker Rule - WSJ.com
• How Well Is Our Financial System Serving Us? - Sarah Bloom Raskin
• Forward-Looking Monitoring of Financial Intermediation - Liberty Street
• Why the Poor Are on the Hook for the Housing Crash - Rortybomb
• Fingerprinting Climate Change - Michael Roberts
• Discouraged Dads - Nancy Folbre