Links for 10-31-2012

• Mitt Romney’s voodoo spending cuts - Ezra Klein
• More on climate change and budget deficits - mainly macro
• Romney would be a backward step - Martin Wolf
• The Real Barrier to Tax Reform - Bruce Bartlett
• Some Properties of Non-linear Least Squares - Dave Giles
• Medium of Account vs Medium of Exchange - Nick Rowe
• A Letter from a Disgusted teacher - Diane Ravitch
• How Retirement Age Tracks Social Security's Rules - Tim Taylor
• Social Media and the 2012 Campaign (Amy Thoma) - KTXL
• Narayana Kocherlakota Speech - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• Fed’s Kocherlakota: Fed May Not Be Providing Enough Stimulus - WSJ
• The Price Mechanism - Cheap Talk
• Insider Knowledge - Crooked Timber
• Scoop Dupes - Paul Krugman
• Manufacturing - IGM Forum