Links for 01-12-2013

• Is Shinzo Abe the Great Keynesian Hope? - Noahpinion
• Is That A Backbone I See? - Paul Krugman
• Shadow banking: Economics and policy priorities - vox
• Latest Scare Talk on Social Security Is No Cause for Alarm - CBPP
• To Simplify Taxes, Start by Standardizing Them - Bloomberg
• The long run government debt target - mainly macro
• On the Geithner Legacy - Rortybomb
• Has quantitative easing had its day? - Radhika Desai
• Fed’s Plosser: Platinum Coin Not Worth Risk to Credibility - WSJ
• Banking in Early Nineteenth-Century New England - Liberty Street
• Is Japan the Country of the Future Again? - Paul Krugman
• Why the Unemployment Rate Is So High - Laura D'Andrea Tyson