Links for 12-18-2012

• Rumors of a Deal - Paul Krugman
• The 'Mommy Penalty,' Around the World - NYTimes.com
• Greed, not generosity, more likely to be 'paid forward' - EurekAlert
• 'Peak Farmland' Is Here, Crop Area to Diminish - Scientific American
• How Long Will it Take to Get to 6.5 Percent Unemployment? - owenzidar
• The WSJ Editorial Page Rediscovers Root Canal Economics - Uneasy Money
• Who is right: Clifford Asness or Warren Buffet? - Richard Green
• Just enough trust, from one generation to the next - vox
• Securitization (NBER) - Gorton and Metrick
• Today’s challenges go beyond Keynes - Jeff Sachs
• Lack of progress in Macroeconomics (response to Sachs) - Antonio Fatas
• Something (Everything) Rotten in the State of Macro - Paul Krugman
• Rottenness - Stephen Williamson
• Plain English - macroblog
• How to monitor the monitor - James Choi
• It happened in Connecticut - Andrew Gelman
• A History of Violence - David Warsh
• Dollar Funding and Global Banks - Jeremy Stein
• A Real Right to Work - Nancy Folbre
• EMH and Macroeconomics - askblog