Links for 03-20-2013

• In Cyprus, Europe Sets a New Standard for Stupidity - Clive Crook
• Medicare Cost Slowdown Could Close U.S. Budget Gap - Peter Orszag
• Misunderstanding IS-LM (Wonkish and Unimportant) - Paul Krugman
• Fiscal policy with Old and New Keynesian IS curves - Nick Rowe
• Bernanke and the Term Structure - New Monetarist Econ
• Being Ahead of the Curve: Not Always a Good Thing - macroblog
• The Stanford economists are so wrong - Miles Kimball
• Is the Fed's crystal ball rose-colored? - Ylan Q. Mui
• Shaking the Bayesian Machine - Normal Deviate
• Iraq Metrics, Ten Years After - Econbrowser
• Professor Monti and the bubble - Vox EU
• Perspectives on a Sluggish Recovery - Tim Taylor
• Not Much Grade Inflation Here - Andrew Samwick
• Housing Starts increase in February - Calculated Risk
• Huge Fed Balance Sheet Has Historical Precedent - WSJ.com
• Realism, austerity or demagogy? Evidence from Italy - Vox EU
• Introducing ‘Ask Emily’ by Economist Emily Oster - WSJ.com
• The Politics of the 14th Amendment and the Debt Limit - Economix
• Is There Still Demand for Even More MMT Weblogging? - Brad DeLong
• Smith on the Boundaries of State and Market Interventions - Gavin Kennedy