Links for 02-19-2013

• Goldbugs, Greece, and Affinity Fraud - Paul Krugman
• What Data Can’t Do - David Brooks
• Robert Samuelson's Psychological Problems - Dean Baker
• Japanese Growth in the Aftermath of Its Financial Crisis - Brad DeLong
• Balanced Budget Amendment Still a Terrible Idea - Ramesh Ponnuru
• Influential Few Predict Behavior of the Many - Scientific American
• The Fight That Brought the Minimum Wage to America - Marc Ambinder
• How Social Science Research Can Improve Teaching - Brad DeLong
• Who Benefits from the EITC? - Owen Zidar
• The Myth of Reagan's Miracle - Paul Krugman
• Right-Wing Mythology 101 - ataxingmatter
• The Importance of Changes in Federal Policy Toward Job Sharing - NBER
• Bigger is betterwhen you’re a bank, and also defaulting - FT Alphaville
• America’s higher education faces economic hurdles - Economists' Forum
• For Many, Being Out of Work Is Chief Obstacle to Finding It - NYT
• Editorial: The Trouble With Online College - NYT
• Can You Trust Jared Diamond? - Slate Magazine
• The Great Dollar Decline - Paul Krugman
• Looking again at “Big Deal” scholarly journal packages - Digitopoly
• Joe Scarborough v. Paul Krugman on the Dollar Decline - EconoSpeak
• Using Deceptive Numbers on Health Care in the NYT - Dean Baker
• Fed Officials Want to Tackle "Reaching for Yield" - Carola Binder
• Oregonians’ courage can bring health care to all - Register-Guard
• Rebuilding a nation - Register-Guard
• Abe Pressures BOJ - WSJ.com