Links for 11-16-2012

• Solving the Too Big to Fail Problem - William Dudley
• The role of firms in aggregate fluctuations - vox
• Why are schools failing to promote social mobility? - Miles Corak
• Can Borrowing From Abroad Avoid The Debt Ceilinlg? - Barkley Rosser
• Bernanke suggests Lending Standards are "Overly Tight" - Calculated Risk
• Changing the Conventional Wisdom on Wall Street - Simon Johnson
• Distinguishing Between a Fed Threshold and Trigger - WSJ
• Free-riding economists, revisited - Frances Woolley
• What the Fiscal Cliff Means for the Middle Class - Middle Class Economist
• Defending left-libertarianism - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Mandate for Obama’s second term: Reduce inequality - Oxfam
• Assemblage theory - UnderstandingSociety
• Stop Bashing California - Amy Thoma
• The Upcoming Mini-Deal on the "Fiscal Cliff" - Robert Reich
• How 'black swans' and 'perfect storms' become lame excuses - EurekAlert
• Faith-based economics at the Treasury Committee - Jonathon Portes
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims increased sharply - Calculated Risk