Links for 01-17-2013

• US Incarceration Rates Are Out of Control - Discourse.net
• Have we solved 'too big to fail'? - Andrew Haldane
• The Smartphone Have-Nots - NYTimes.com
• Safe Assets and Government Debt - mainly macro
• Six figure pout... - Angry Bear
• Debt-ceiling economics and politics - Econbrowser
• Base money and short-term debt - FT Alphaville
• Attempts to correct 'death panel' myth may backfire - EurekAlert
• Key Measures show low inflation in December - Calculated Risk
• How (not to) Break Political Dynasties - Acemoglu and Robinson
• Doomsday, gold and the Bundesbank - Antonio Fatas
• Gold, gold, GOLD!!! - Noahpinion
• The safe asset shortage - The Economist
• Ideology as cognitive bias - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Less Globalization Than You Think - Tim Taylor
• The Macroeconomy and Fed Actions - Narayana Kocherlakota
• Debt Ceilings, Bombs, Cliffs and the Trillion Dollar Coin - Jeff Frankel
• Methodological localism - UnderstandingSociety
• Facebook’s vision becomes clearer - Digitopoly