Links for 02-27-2013

• Dependents of the State - NYT
• The Sullied Media Model - Digitopoly
• Republicans Must Bridge the Income Gap - Sheila Bair
• Dove or Hawk? Bernanke's record - Antonio Fatas
• What is Happening Here in Italy - Angry Bear
• The ideal of objectivity - Scientific American
• The sad record of fiscal austerity - Martin Wolf
• Medicare Needs Fixing, but Not Right Now - NYT
• The Fever Swamp of the Center, Continued - Paul Krugman
• The Great Recession and Preferences for Redistribution - Carola Binder
• The false-alarmists behind this shrinking population panic - Dean Baker
• Non-linear Functions of Non-Stationary Data Can be Stationary - Dave Giles
• Deficit hawks' 'generational theft' argument is a sham - Michael Hiltzik
• Leading Economists Vote on Raising the Minimum Wage - Angry Bear
• Draft Review of Engerman, Sokoloff, *et al.*, - Brad DeLong
• Is Mexico the Comeback Kid? - Thomas Friedman
• A lost generation (cont’d)? - Robert Samuelson
• 30 years of financial inefficiency - TripleCrisis
• Fantasies of Presidential Will - Paul Krugman
• TBP Guide to Car Leasing & Buying - Barry Ritholtz
• Increasing the Role fo the Private Sector in Housing Finance - Brookings
• What Paul Krugman got wrong about Italy’s economy - Miles Kimball
• Mismeasurement of Federal Spending, Investment and Saving - Economix
• Inequality, Capitalism And A Nation Of Men - Bruce Judson
• Bullard weighs in on the ‘Bernanke doctrine’ - MacroScope
• Death by Davos - Paul Krugman