Links for 03-01-2013

• Will Wants Innumerate Gold Buggery - Barkley Rosser
• Recession, Past Policies Continue to Drive Deficits - CBPP
• Bean on Nominal GDP targets - mainly macro
• Five Myths About the Sequester - Brookings
• Economic Conditions and Conditionality - Charlie Evans
• Is 'terroir' a joke and/or are wine experts incompetent? - Vox EU
• Thoughts on Immigration Policy - Dean Baker
• Gene Sperling Doesn’t Respect Me - Paul Krugman
• For Fed Presidents, Economics Is Local - Economix
• That Oh So Elusive Natural Rate of Interest - Uneasy Money
• Fed’s Fisher Says It’s Time to Taper Bond-Buying Program - WSJ
• Inequality and social mobility, an interesting discussion - Miles Corak
• Sequester will mean lost jobs and less growth - CBS News
• The Sequester and the Tea Party Plot - Robert Reich
• Men: Nature's Second Sex - Frances Woolley
• The ideal of objectivity. - Scientific American
• Finance has always been more profitable - Noahpinion
• What If People Lived Forever . . . - Econbrowser
• Student-Loan Delinquencies Soar - WSJ
• Labs for Testing Fiscal Policy Positions - Economix
• Bernanke’s Credibility on ‘Too Big to Fail’ - Economix
• Automatic Reductions in Spending -- aka Sequestration - CBO
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decrease - Calculated Risk
• The recession turned middle-class jobs into low-wage jobs - Brad Plumer
• Would Congress Care if the Federal Reserve Lost Money? - Brookings