Links for 02-05-2013

• Rate Expectations (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Foreign Banks Hold Most Excess Reserves - WSJ
• No, there probably isn't a bond bubble - Neil Irwin
• The Economics of Immigration - Owen Zidar
• How is Inequality Holding Back the Recovery? - Rortybomb
• Does Paul Ryan Know What Austerity Means? - EconoSpeak
• Can the NFL Stop the Goalposts from Moving? - Justin Fox
• Is the Right Shifting Course on Dodd-Frank? - Rortybomb
• Forecasting the Recovery (NBER) - Dominguez, Shapiro
• Gold Returns (NBER) - Robert J. Barro, Sanjay Misra
• Cyclical and Structural Unemployment (NBER) - Peter Diamond
• Government Spending Multipliers (NBER) - Owyang, Ramey, Zubairy
• Central Bank Independence Versus Policy Rules - John Taylor
• It’s Monday and Robert Samuelson Is Confused - Dean Baker
• Mark Thoma’s spending cuts - Marginal Revolution
• Video: The Debt Ceiling Explained - David Wessel
• Checkerboard Puzzle, Moore's Law, and Growth Prospects - Tim Taylor
• Imbalance in the infrastructure debate - Observational Epidemiology
• Government Purchases Versus Government Spending - EconoSpeak
• Is "Precautionary Saving" Still a Problem? - David Beckworth
• Money, Wealth, and Models - Paul Krugman
• The Long and Short of It - Carola Binder