Economist's View

links for 2009-07-15

• Multiplier muddles (wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• A New Survey of Multipliers (wonkish) - Econbrowser
• Where to start reading about causality (wonkish) - Andrew Gelman
• Shelah does Social Choice (extra wonkish) - Yet another Sheep
• Exclusive Contracts and Investment Incentives - Cheap Talk
• Goldman's Back, and Why We Should Be Worried - Robert Reich
• Sarah Palin’s Supply-side Silliness on Cap & Trade - pgl
• Concerns about the Fed's New Balance Sheet - Econbrowser
• After the storm comes a hard climb - Martin Wolf
• AEI And Consumer Financial Protection - Rortybomb
• Further Thoughts on Shadow Banks - Rortybomb
• Insuring against the apocalypse - Free exchange
• Justice Dept. Investigates Markit Over Derivatives - NYTimes.com
• Conservation programs drive crop production - Greed, Green and Grains
• Coping With Excess - Olivia Judson
• The recession is over! (Technically) - Daniel Gross
• Negative Nominal Interest Rates Miss the Point (II) - Economic Perspectives
• 1. Stimulus 2. Restructuring 3. Growth - Knowing and Making
• Thinking Clearly about Economic Inequality - Will Wilkinson
• Timelines of policy responses to the global financial crisis - voxeu.org
• White Man’s Last Stand - Dowd - NYTimes.com
• Housing and Mobility - Creative Class
• Are Democrats Ready to Fight for Consumer Protection? - Tim Fernholz
• A funny thing happened update - macroblog
• CEA Chair Christina Romer Takes Your Questions - The White House Blog
• Bill Easterly - links
• Ezra Klein - links
• Matthew Yglesias - links
• Felix Salmon - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• The Daily Grail - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• The Big Picture - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• FT Alphaville - links

links for 2009-07-14

• Time to tackle the real evil: too much debt - Taleb and Spitznagel
• The Case for More Fiscal Stimulus - Freakonomics
• Peter Wallison calls Consumer Protection Elitist - Richard Green
• Selling The Consumer Protection Agency - The Baseline Scenario
• Reality Belies a Health-Care Scare Tactic - washingtonpost.com
• Senate Can Strengthen Climate Legislation - CBPP
• Expanding health care coverage will make it more affordable - TNR
• Changes to Health Insurance and Labor Markets - CBO Director’s Blog
• The Health Care Clock, and Why Obama Has to Act Quickly - Robert Reich
• What Makes a Local Currency Tick? - Economic Perspectives
• White House Gives Upbeat Forecast for Economy - NYTimes.com
• Cracking Chistiano, Eichenbaum, and Rebelo's Big Multipliers - Brad DeLong
• Myth vs the Reality of Adam Smith's Political Economy - Prose
• Sotomayor's Critics Are the Radicals - washingtonpost.com
• Grading Obama's Africa Speech - William Easterly
• Grading Obama's Africa speech - Chris Blattman
• Schama's revolution - Daniel Little
• On penalty cash rates - TVHE
• Trapped in the Bubble - Mother Jones
• The stupidest attempt at criticism I've seen in quite some time
• Chris Martenson - links
• Matthew Yglesias - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Ezra Klein - links
• News N Economics - links
• The Daily Grail - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-07-13

• A Homespun Safety Net - NYTimes.com
• Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me - NYTimes.com
• Supply, Demand and Speculation - Greed, Green and Grains
• Modern macro even Paul Krugman will love - Greg Mankiw
• Now We May Perhaps to Begin? - Economic Principals
• Securitization and Structured Credit - Interview With Ann Rutledge
• President Obama, please be bolder - Richard Green
• Universal health care could boost economy - Jeff Gelles
• Catholicism as Antidote to Turbo-Capitalism - NYTimes.com
• Opaque Burma - Understanding Society
• Better Lightbulbs And Beyond - Mark Muro
• Brad DeLong - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Econbrowser - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Chris Martenson - links
• Abnormal Returns - links

links for 2009-07-12

• Ed Lazear on the Stimulus Package - Econbrowser
• Rebuilding Something Better - Barack Obama
• Ben Stein Has Not Heard of Global Warming - Beat the Press
• Forced Sales and House Prices - NBER Digest
• Sled dogs to snowmobiles - Arctic Economics
• Negative Nominal Interest Rates Miss the Point - Economic Perspectives
• Who Said Economists Didn’t See The Crisis Coming? - Edward Hugh
• The Big Picture - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• naked capitalism - links

links for 2009-07-11

• Curbing instability: Policy and regulation - voxeu.org
• Lunch with the FT - Larry Summers
• Correcting Five Myths About the Stimulus Bill - CBPP
• The economy and employment: On the turn? - The Economist
• Are asset allocation models broken? - Abnormal Returns
• Administration Considers Bailout for Small Businesses - washingtonpost.com
• In Defense of the Fed's Independence - The Hearing
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Matthew Yglesias - links
• The Stash - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Rortybomb - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Abnormal Returns - links

links for 2009-07-10

• Bank Stock Warrants Undervalued, Panel Says - NYTimes.com
• Index Funds and Commodity Prices... Here We Go Again - econbrowser
• The relative dearth of recent household formations - Richard Green
• Do Unemployment Claims Show Hope? (No) - Economic Perspectives
• Win Bets at Parties: Simultaneous Chess - Cheap Talk
• Clearinghouse saved foreign exchange trading from the crisis - voxeu.org
• The Public Option in Healthcare Reform - Cheap Talk
• New Issue - Oxford University Economic Studies
• Has Globalization Made Forecasting Inflation More Difficult? - FRB Dallas
• Federal Reserve independence - FRB - Kohn
• Small Steps Could Mean Big Savings on Health-Care Reform - Michael Kinsley
• Are Speculators Driving Oil Prices? - The Stash
• Tax The Rich? - Bruce Bartlett
• Myths and Realities About How States Are Using Recovery Act Funds - CBPP
• Both Obama and his critics are wrong about the stimulus package - Daniel Gross
• How US History Unravels the American Myth of Free Markets - New Deal 2.0
• The effects of lending to households and firms - voxeu.org
• Felix Salmon - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Across the Curve - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Paul Kedrosky - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• The Big Picture - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Matthew Yglesias - links
• Ezra Klein - links

links for 2009-07-09

• Is Benefit-Cost Analysis Helpful for Environmental Regulation? - Robert Stavins
• De-speculating markets - Free exchange
• Markets work, even when they don’t - macroblog
• No evidence that older workers are crowding out younger ones - Peter Coy
• 'Invisible hand' guides evolution of cooperative turn-taking - EurekAlert
• Ontology of the French Revolution - Daniel Little
• How the potato got hot - Los Angeles Times
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• The Stash - links
• Matthew Yglesias - links
• Chris Martenson - links
• naked capitalism - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-07-08

• Introducing the Google Chrome OS - Google Blog
• Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System - NYTimes.com
• Don’t say colonialism! the debate on Paul Collier - Bill Easterly
• Health Reform’s Acid Test - NYTimes.com
• On Fire - Olivia Judson
• Exclusive Wireless Carriers: A Primer - Cheap Talk
• Overhaul of Food Safety Rules in the Works - washingtonpost.com
• Reports Calling for Estate Tax Repeal Seriously Flawed — CBPP
• What would a second stimulus package look like? - Christopher Beam
• The Carnage Continues: Time To Ramp Up the Stimulus - Randall Wray
• Do we need a second fiscal stimulus? Lessons from Japan - Business Week
• The Great Synchronisation: The trade crisis of 2008-2009 - voxeu.org
• The Stash - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Felix Salmon - links
• Ezra Klein - links
• Matthew Yglesias - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Chris Martenson - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Macro and Other Market Musings - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• naked capitalism - links

links for 2009-07-07

• Kinship and conflict - voxeu.org
• Banks Planning "Harry and Louise" Ads - The Stash
• Robert Shiller answers critics of housing "wealth effect" - Peter Coy
• CFTC Floats Rules Aimed at Speculation - washingtonpost.com
• Chinese Currency Used for Some Foreign Payments - NYTimes.com
• Automakers’ Swift Cases in Bankruptcy Shock Experts - NYTimes.com
• New research explores how -- and why -- music affects our brain - SciAm
• How to think about a jobless recovery - Free exchange
• Trade policy and the crisis - voxeu.org
• Physical reality of string theory demonstrated - EurekAlert
• "Internet Asperger's Syndrome" and "Austistic economics" - Language Log
• Stimulus is working, but may not be enough - EPI
• Ezra Klein - links
• The Stash - links
• Matthew Yglesias - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• Paul Kedrosky - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Chris Martenson - links
• The Big Picture - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Credit Writedowns - links

links for 2009-07-06

• Plenty of countries get healthcare right - The Boston Globe
• The world must learn to live and farm sustainably - FT.com
• Court Ruling Clears Path for New G.M. - NYTimes.com
• The (mythical?) housing wealth effect - voxeu.org
• Animal Spirits - Brad DeLong
• The Tragedy of the Millennium Development Goals - Aid Watch
• Off-balance-sheet federal liabilities - Econbrowser
• Abnormal Returns - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Chris Martenson - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-07-05

• Mortgages Made Simpler - News Analysis - NYTimes.com
• Embezzlement Leads to Bank Run in Virtual World - Cheap Talk
• Uncertainty over the size of the output gap - The Economist
• House prices and the wealth effect - The Economist
• Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism - Spiegel
• Property Tax Appeals Take Toll on Governments - NYTimes.com
• naked capitalism - links
• The Stash - links
• The Baseline Scenario - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• ataxingmatter - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• naked capitalism - links

links for 2009-07-04

• Conceptual revolutions in twentieth-century art - voxeu.org
• The Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education - NBER Digest
• A funny thing happened on the way to the federal funds market - macroblog
• Asian Officials Push Back Against Savings Glut Theory - WSJ.com
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Credit Writedowns - links

links for 2009-07-03

• This Is Their Reform Strategy For Big Banks? - The Baseline Scenario
• Treasury's View of PPIP, an Update - The Stash
• Put transit where the people are - Ed Glaeser
• The Wranglers - Information Processing
• Second Life data offers window into how trends spread - EurekAlert
• A Smart Critique of the Public Plan (Sort Of) - Ezra Klein
• Bring the Unemployment Numbers Down Now - Economic Perspectives
• An Emerging Split: Treasury vs. the National Economic Council - Economix
• Explaining the trade collapse - voxeu.org
• ‘Easy Money’ Didn’t Sink the Economy - Economic Perspectives
• American jobs data are worse than we think - Mohamed El-Erian
• The Labor Market is Still Down - Jeff Frankel
• Harmful financial innovation - Willem Buiter

links for 2009-07-02

• A V-shaped recession? - Econbrowser
• When Our Brains Short-Circuit - NYTimes.com
• The Death of a Montana Forest - NYTimes.com
• Treasury to Name 9 'Toxic' Managers - WSJ.com
• Nitpicking Brad Delong on Fannie/Freddie - Richard Green
• Health Care Deform - TNR
• New class of black holes discovered - EurekAlert
• Adverse Selection 101: Asset Detoxification Failed - Kenneth Kuttner

links for 2009-07-01

• Yellen Takes a Big Swing at Inflation Hawks - Real Time Economics
• Bank Woes Deepening in Europe - NYTimes.com
• Oregon Logging Rule Is Overturned - NYTimes.com
• ‘Operator? Can You Put Me Through to Ant Nest 251?’ - Olivia Judson
• Fiscal Restraint from Those 50 Little Herbert Hoovers - pgl
• Fossil primate suggests common Asian ancestor, challenges 'Ida' - EurekAlert
• Mistake by Obama’s Advisers in Predicting Job Losses - NYTimes.com
• Trickle-Down Economics Fails to Deliver as Promised - Real Time Economics
• Financial sector pro-cyclicality: Lessons from the crisis, Part I - voxeu.org
• Financial sector pro-cyclicality: Lessons from the crisis, Part II - voxeu.org
• Explaining the FOMC - Real Time Economics
• The savings glut. Controversy guaranteed - Brad Setser

links for 2009-06-30

• A Quick Look Back at Waxman-Markey and the Road Ahead - Robert Stavins
• Do you know how much your home is worth? - voxeu.org
• Hybrid "Superpredator" Invading California Ponds - National Geographic
• More Signs of the Demise of Behavioral Economics? - Cheap Talk
• Why The Stimulus Isn't Working - Economic Perspectives
• Employer Health Benefits: Hawaii's Experience - FRBSF Economic Letter
• Greenspan Speaks - Models & Agents
• How to Set Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets for All Countries - Jeff Frankel
• Why does Japan have so many elevator operator? - Daniel Gross
• Young Japanese Raise Their Voices Over Economy - NYTimes.com
• Why We Need a Second Stimulus - TNR
• New Plan Ties Lower College Loan Payments to Income - NYTimes.com
• Bucking the Banks - Chris hayes
• In Which Greg Mankiw Confesses to Remarkable Ignorance - Brad DeLong
• Debating the Public Option - The American Prospect

links for 2009-06-29

• When to Impose Fiscal Restraint and With What - pgl
• Caveat Mortgagor - James Surowiecki
• Mice run faster on high-grade oil - EurekAlert
• Obama Warns Against Trade Penalties in Energy Bill - NYT
• Obama is choosing to be weak - Clive Crook
• U.S. Plan to Stem Foreclosures Is Mired in Paper Avalanche - NYT
• Google Makes a Case That It Isn’t So Big - NYT
• Against Gerontocracy - Economic Principals
• Deficit Disorder - pgl
• How Americans spend their 24 hours - News N Economics
• Chinese Now Say "No Change" in Currency Policy - Yves Smith

links for 2009-06-28

• Volcker Gets Less Than He Wants in Curbing Excesses - Bloomberg
• G.M., Detroit and the Fall of the Black Middle Class - NYTimes.com
• Book Review - 'The Industrial Revolutionaries - NYTimes.com
• Central banking as partisan politics - Willem Buiter
• The Lost Continent (Africa) - Robert Skidelsky
• The CRA... Still Not Causing the Meltdown - Obsidian Wings
• Most Subprime Lenders Weren’t Covered by CRA - The Big Picture

links for 2009-06-27

• The American Consumer: Reforming, Or Just Resting? - Carroll and Slacalek
• The cost of medical innovation - voxeu.org
• As Incomes Rebound, Saving Hits Highest Rate in 15 Years - NYT
• Why we have both Fannie and Freddie - Richard Green
• Can Asia free itself from the IMF? - Barry Eichengreen
• Merrill Lynch Camp: Ben Bernanke Is Telling the Truth - Atlantic Business
• Bernanke Grilling May Weaken Case for Fed as Risk Regulator - Bloomberg
• Wartime China - Daniel Little
• Interview with Kevin Murphy - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• Why we shouldn’t subsidise clean-energy technologies - voxeu.org
• Bush's court appointments emphasized ideology over diversity - EurekAlert
• Thinking of you (Theory of Mind) - MIT News

links for 2009-06-26

• The recession and pay: The quiet Americans - The Economist
• Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers - NBER
• Bernanke Defends His Role in Merrill Sale - NYTimes.com
• Online ethics and the bloggers' code revealed - EurekAlert
• Saving Glut Smackdown - David Beckworth
• Rationing Health Care Is Our Choice - washingtonpost.com
• The Health Care Debate in Washington has the Wrong Metrics - pgl
• So Much for "Exorbitant Privilege" and "Dark Matter" As Well - Econbrowser
• Microlending Efforts Now Active in United States - Research of Culture Blog
• The jobless recovery - Free exchange
• Rating agencies and the logic of regulatory license - voxeu.org
• Deliver us from competition - The Economist
• Will the Banks Sort Themselves Out? - Economix
• Refuted economic doctrines #9: Real Business Cycle Theory - John Quiggin
• Employment growth in Canada and the US over the longer term - Stephen Gordon

links for 2009-06-25

• Taking macro-prudential regulation seriously - voxeu.org
• The leading economic index - Econbrowser
• The US is following Japan, but seven times faster - Daniel Gross
• Evolutionary Origins of Your Right and Left Brain - Scientific American
• How best to pay executives? voxeu.org

links for 2009-06-23

• Why all regulatory roads lead to the Fed - Frederic Mishkin
• Review of Akerlof and Shiller - John Quiggin
• Why is American food so popular in Japan? - Daniel Gross
• Brain represents tools as temporary body parts - EurekAlert
• How should Latvia exit its currency peg? - voxeu.org
• European public opinion, migration, and welfare benefits - voxeu.org
• A Fairer Credit Card? Priceless - NYTimes.com
• Yes Virginia, there was an international financial crisis - Brad Setser
• Is freely available research better disseminated? - voxeu.org
• Silver's flawed analysis of health care $ - Brendan Nyhan
• Don't borrowing-constrained households spend more of a tax cut?? - Nick Rowe

links for 2009-06-22

• Risks of a double-dip, W-shaped recession may be growing - Nouriel Roubini
• How to Get The Fed Out Of Its 'Box' - Frederic Mishkln
• A thin outline of regulatory reform - Clive Crook
• Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? - Cheap Talk
• Towards a Fiscal Constitution - Economic Principals
• Don't believe the hyperinflation hype - Telegraph
• Small countries defenseless in global economic crisis - Michael Spence
• The Supply Side of Housing Markets - NBER Reporter

links for 2009-06-21

• The Global Financial Crisis: Selective Recent Research - NBER Reporter
• Reforming financial regulations in America: - The Economist
• Does unconventional monetary and fiscal policy presage inflation? - Ajay Shah
• How a Wall Street Revamp Expands the Status Quo - NYTimes.com

links for 2009-06-20

• The macroeconomic benefits of mortgage-backed securities - voxeu.org
• The next global reserve currency - voxeu.org
• Taxes Are Up in 23 States, Expected to Go Up in 13 More - RTE
• Understanding the Depression Index - Growthology
• How the Obama Financial Reform Plan is Insufficient - Richard Green
• Theories of the Chinese Revolution - UnderstandingSociety
• Sean Hannity: Unbiased economic observer - Brendan Nyhan
• Nerdy Chicago Weather Joke - Cheap Talk
• Much Ado About the Shadow Banking System - The Hearing

links for 2009-06-19

• An Interview With Paul Samuelson, Part Two - Conor Clarke
• Another Look Under the Hood of Waxman-Markey - Robert Stavins
• Collapsing trade in a Barbie world - Kevin O'Rourke
• Too Big To Fail, Politically - The Baseline Scenario
• Does the Obama Plan for Reforming Wall Street Measure Up? - Robert Reich
• Healthcare CEOs Shoot Themselves in the Foot - Mother Jones
• The Compensation Hustle - Chris Hayes
• Scrabble: Price Discovery Edition - Cheap Talk
• CO2 Levels Highest in Two Million Years - National Geographic
• Trade finance in emerging Asian economies - voxeu.org
• Mr Krugman and Mr Ferguson (very long and ultra wonkish) - Bronte Capital
• Bipartisanship Is Worthy, Health Care Is More Important - E.J. Dionne Jr.
• How did that bubble get so big? - Free Exchange
• Estimating the magnitude of excessive international imbalances - voxeu.org

links for 2009-06-18

• Could I have been that wrong? Answer: I don't think so? - Environ Economics
• Estimating the magnitude of excessive international imbalances - voxeu.org
• America should also look to its fiscal health - Kenneth Rogoff
• Mortgage Companies and the New Regulatory Regime - PaperTrail
• My Intermediate Micro Course: Incentives and Game Theory - Cheap Talk
• The changing shape of the yield curve - Stephen Gordon
• Brookings on regional economic performance - News N Economics
• The US move to principles-based regulation - Felix Salmon
• Core Reforms Held Firm As Much Else Fell Away - washingtonpost.com
• Some Lawmakers Question Expanded Reach for the Fed - NYTimes.com
• Banks Brace for Fight Over Consumer Protection Agency - NYTimes.com
• Overhaul Largely Ignores Rating Agencies Like Moody’s - NYTimes.com
• More Class Warfare from the Cato Institute's Dan Mitchell - ataxingmatter
• Voting twice: A new approach to limiting of government debt - voxeu.org
• Clive Granger memorial pages - Econbrowser

links for 2009-06-17

• The alphabet soup gets much worse - Felix Salmon
• A Long Way to Inflation - Andy Harless
• Media Reports Mischaracterize CBO Estimate of Health Reform Bill - CBPP
• Financial Regulatory Overhaul Is Detailed - washingtonpost.com
• C. Romer video: Economic Case for Health Care Reform - Credit Writedowns
• The housing and finance sectors can't fix our problems - Daniel Gross
• What's the matter with Rich Liberals? - Richard Green
• Rhetoric of Rationing Health Care Overlooks Reality - NYTimes.com
• The recession tracks the Great Depression - Martin Wolf
• Parsing interest rates - Paul Krugman
• Podcasts Lectures- Paul Krugman - MTEF
• Expert Failure - Freakonomics
• Fed’s Warsh Offers Bleak Outlook for Global Economy - Real Time Economics
• Climate change is already having an impact in the US - EurekAlert

links for 2009-06-16

• Department of "Huh?" (Eric Zitzewitz Department) - Brad DeLong
• Who wants school vouchers? Rich whites and poor nonwhites - Andrew Gelman
• Supply chains and financial shocks - voxeu.org
• A Real Regulatory Review: Interview with Bill Singer - Sense on Cents
• A Prescription for a Crippling Recession - Ezra Klein
• Unemployment claims and employment change - Paul Krugman
• The Dollar as a Reserve Currency: Apres le Deluge - Econbrowser
• The Decoupling Debate Is Back! - Foreign Policy
• Moral Hazard and the Crisis - Paul Volcker
• Principles that must guide financial regulation - FT
• The Effect of Legislation of Credit Card Interest Rates... - Credit Slips
• Get it wrong this time, and this won’t be our last meltdown - New Deal 2.0
• Nontraditional Monetary Policy - Charles Evans
• The Great Depression II meme - Credit Writedowns
• Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran - Photo Gallery - National Geographic Magazine

links for 2009-06-15

• How many jobs are onshorable? - voxeu.org
• Do you see what I see? [or, what recovery?] - Econbrowser
• You Don’t Get a Vote! - The Baseline Scenario
• Oil Check - Financial Page
• Fed faces key policy decisions - FT Alphaville
• The Bumpy Road Ahead - Dani Rodrick
• Up or Out? - Economic Principals
• Stimulus history lesson - Paul Krugman
• Sheila Bair vs. John Dugan - The Big Picture

links for 2009-06-14

• Too Poor to Make the News - NYTimes.com
• Regulators Feud as Banking System Overhauled - NYTimes.com
• Wealth effect update: Q1 2009 - Rebecca Wilder
• Paul Krugman's London lectures - The Economist
• Bad bank(s) and recapitalisation of the banking sector - voxeu.org
• Simply holding more capital is not the answer - voxeu.org

links for 2009-06-13

• Making Financial Regulation Work: 50 More Years - Mark Thoma
• Economists Are Uneasy With Fed’s Role as Loan Officer - NYTimes.com
• Holes of Silence - Discover Magazine
• Krauthammer has no idea what the passive is - Language Log
• Is behavioural economics wrong? - Stumbling and Mumbling
• In Praise of Generalized Non-Parametric Deconvolution - Crooked Timber
• The Healthcare War is Now Official - Robert Reich

links for 2009-06-12

• Legal trade barriers must be kept in check - Bhagwati and Panagariya
• Restaurant Prices to Flow Into ‘Core’ Inflation Measure - Real Time Economics
• Grand Equivalence Version of the Coase Theorem - Environmental Economics
• Global imbalances and the accumulation of risk - Gros - voxeu.org
• How should we make economic forecasts? - Hendry and Reade - voxeu.org
• Google Fusion Tables - Google Research Blog
• The Latest Public Option Bamboozle - Robert Reich
• Where I'm Working Today - Mark Thoma's Other Blog
• Thoughts on Stabilization, Recovery, and Transition - Dennis P. Lockhart
• What really prompts the dog's 'guilty look' - EurekAlert

links for 2009-06-11

• Negotiating the TARP Warrant Repurchases - DealBook
• Treasury to Set Top Pay at Firms Getting Aid - NYTimes.com
• Latvia’s currency crisis is a rerun of Argentina’s - Roubini - FT
• Paul Krugman in London - Knowing and Making
• Paul Krugman in London 2 - the future of economics - Knowing and Making
• USO Oil Fund - All of the Drops, Only Some of the Gains - Phil’s Stock World
• Another disappointing trade report... - News N Economics
• Beige Book: Pawn Your Stuff to Pay for Your Wedding - Real Time Economics

links for 2009-06-10

• U.S. Steps Up Inquiry of Google Book Settlement - NYTimes.com
• 10 Large Banks Allowed to Exit U.S. Aid Program - NYTimes.com
• The congressional politics of climate change - voxeu.org
• What cities have in common - Daniel Little
• Europe's Social Democratic Countries Move Right - Harold Meyerson
• It is in Beijing’s interests tolend Geithner a hand - FT
• We Knew Black Holes Were Massive. Now Double That. - Discover
  
• Economists clash on shifting sands - FT

links for 2009-06-09

• Details in Healthcare and White House Efforts to Get Them - Robert Reich
• Do We Really Need Another Stimulus Already? - Atlantic Business Channel
• Poverty and Human Rights - Open Economics
• The ‘part-timezation’ of America - FT Alphaville
• Taking the Toxic Out of Assets - NYTimes.com
• Health Care Reform for Beginners: Flavors of the Public Plan - Ezra Klein
• My Intermediate Micro Course: Utilitarianism - Cheap Talk
• The Ferguson - Krugman Exchange - A Fistful of Euros

links for 2009-06-08

• Why has Japan been so hard hit by the global crisis? - voxeu.org
• Not a robust recovery - Econbrowser
• Central banks' exit strategies - The Economist
• President’s Economic Circle Keeps Tensions at a Simmer - NYT
• U.S. to Propose Wider Oversight of Compensation - NYT
• Rational inattention to politics - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Enlisting moral hazard in the war on drugs - voxeu.org
• In the blood - The Economist
• Regulating Bankers' Pay - SSRN - Bebchuk and Spamann
• Doubts mount over US toxic asset plan - FT

links for 2009-06-07

• Where’s the money coming from? - Paul Krugman
• Google Says It's Actually Quite Small - washingtonpost.com
• The Economy Is Still at the Brink - NYTimes.com
• Congress, the Banks and Derivatives - NYTimes.com
• Does climate change affect economic growth? - voxeu.org
• Heat tolerance, and climate change - Greed, Green and Grains
• Consumer Bankruptcy Filings up Sharply - Calculated Risk
• Should we limit the exclusion for employer-provided insurance? - Linda Beale
• 'The Myth of the Rational Market' - Book Review - washingtonpost.com

links for 2009-06-06

• An improving job market? - Econbrowser
• Employment Report - Angry Bear
• Trade finance: G20 and follow-up - voxeu.org
• California Home Prices in Ounces of Gold - Real Property Alpha
• What is Alsace? - Understanding Society
• Financial Markets and Monetary Policy - Janet Yellen

links for 2009-06-05

• Banks Show a Diminished Yet Powerful Hand - NYTimes.com
• The con is on: how carbon credits neuter Cap & Trade - Willem Buiter
• Who Needs Microfoundations? - Matthew Yglesias
• The problem with bailouts - The Boston Globe
• High population density triggers cultural explosions - EurekAlert
• Italy, before and after Lehman Brothers - voxeu.org
• A Preliminary Assessment of the TALF - FRB NY
• World economy tracking or doing worse than Great Depression - voxeu.org

links for 2009-06-04

• Keynesianism works in Australia - Crooked Timber
• Regulator to Detail Plan to Oversee Derivatives - NYTimes.com
• Michael Perelman’s Peace Plan For Iraq - unsettling economics
• Today vs. the "1980-82 Recession" - Econbrowser
• U.S. Program to Help Banks Sell Bad Assets Is Halted - NYTimes.com
• The wonderful world of negative nominal interest rates - voxeu.org
• Phosphorus Famine Threat to Our Food Supply - Scientific American
• Bernanke's Real Message About Budget Deficits - Robert Reich
• Wage gap linked to customer bias - EurekAlert
• Fall in Libor fails to paint a true picture - FT
• “The Young Cons believe the Bible is relatively silent on supply-side economics.” - The Edge of the American West
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links for 2009-06-03

• More on bank lending data - Econbrowser
• Financial Crisis and the Paradox of Under- and Over-Regulation - NBER
• G.M.’s Optimistic Attitude Toward Its Market Share - NYTimes.com
• Like Water for Money - Guest Column - Olivia Judson Blog
• Geithner: TARP Repayment Means Toxic Asset Plan May Fizzle - Wonk Room
• Households saving the fiscal stimulus - News N Economics
• We Can’t Go Back Again - The Bellows
• The threat of political meddling in GM - Brendan Nyhan
• Rising government bond rates prove policy works - Martin Wolf
• It's deregulation AND positional/context/prestige externalities - Richard Serlin
• Still All Quiet On the Western Front? - Crooked Timber
• Yglesias and Klein on notPaul Samuelson - Angry Bear
• More Evidence That Girls Kick Ass at Math, Just Like Boys - Discover Magazine
• Zoning Laws, Cap and Trade - Cheap Talk
Abnormal Returns - links
New Deal 2.0 - links
Matthew Yglesias - links
The Stash - links
Paul Kedrosky - links
WSJ - links
Marginal Revolution - links
naked capitalism - links
Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-06-02

• Telling China to Stop Buying Dollars: More Foolish Than Before - Jeff Frankel
• Understanding Taleb - Felix Salmon
• CEA Lists Benefits of Cutting Health-Care Spending - washingtonpost.com
• Speaking of Duration Mismatch - Richard Green
• I once felt good about having Larry Summers run the economy - Richard Green
• Squid 'sight': Not just through eyes - EurekAlert
• Hubris, nemesis, and catharsis - voxeu.org
• Return of the oil price spike - How the World Works
• Many small causes - Daniel Little
• GDI vs. GDP - Macro and Other Market Musings
• It’s 2007 All Over Again - The Bellows
• Administration Is Near a Proposal to Overhaul Financial Rules - NYTimes.com
• NASCAR helped GM down its path of self-destruction - True/Slant
• Being green and fair - China Daily
• links - Marginal Revolution
• links - EconTech
• links - Paul Kedrosky
• links - Abnormal Returns
• links - Across the Curve
• links - The Stash
• links - New Deal 2.0
• links - DeLong

links for 2009-06-01

• Change We Can’t Believe In - Financial Page
• Will the CDS really reflect what Hart and Zingales say it will? - Richard Serlin
• Treasury myths - Models & Agents
• The View from the 23rd Century - Economic Principals
• “Pragmatic Inquiry” and Economics - Open Economics
• General Motors holds a mirror up to America - Robert Reich
• Mark Zandi worries about the Long-term Fiscal Picture - Richard Green
• links - Lane Kenworthy
• links - EconTech
• links - Marginal Revolution
• links - Abnormal Returns
• links - FTAlphaville
• links - Brad DeLong
• links - naked capitalism

links for 2009-05-31

• G.M. Bankruptcy Plan Clears Bondholder Hurdle - NYTimes.com
• Doctors Don't Work For You Anymore - washingtonpost.com
• Pragmatic inquiry - Understanding Society
• Tiananmen Square, 20 Years Later - NYTimes.com
• Banks Seek Role in Bid to Overhaul Derivatives - WSJ.com
• Richard Clarke - Cheney, Rice Remember 9/11. I Do, Too - washingtonpost

links for 2009-05-30

• Sotomayor: Actual Facts! - Obsidian Wings
• Using CDS to Regulate Banks – Hart-Zingales plan version 2.0 - Cheap Talk
• A new accord? - macroblog
• Europe’s stress-tests: Will international accounting standards pass?- voxeu.org
• Stop me before I Sachs again - Easterly
• The Trouble with (In)flexible Spending Accounts - Economix
• Microstructure of strife - Understanding Society
• Wealth effect channels: up and down - News N Economics
• Climate Change Hits Poor Hardest in U.S. - Scientific American

links for 2009-05-29

• Clive W. J. Granger, 1934-2009 - Econbrowser
• Continued Unemployment Claims at Record 6.79 Million - Calculated Risk
• Is OPEC a Cartel? - The Atlantic Business Channel
• More Thoughts on Potential GDP and the Output Gap - Econbrowser
• Studies shed light on collapse of coral reefs - EurekAlert

links for 2009-05-28

• Fed Would Serve as Risk Regulator Under Obama Plan - NYTimes.com
• Sotomayor’s Consumption as an Application of the Life-Cycle Model - pgl
• Why Keynes was right and wrong, and why it matters - Roger Farmer
• Accidental Billionaire - Review - Claude S. Fischer
• In defence of foreign banks - voxeu.org
• A Closer Look at Waxman-Markey - Robert Stavins
• Banks Want Government Subsidies to Buy Assets - The Baseline Scenario

links for 2009-05-27

• Sotomayor and the Republicans - Robert Reich
• U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look - washingtonpost.com
• U.S. Expected to Own 70% of a Revamped G.M. - NYTimes.com
• Economist's View - Kindle Edition
• Do you or did you ever have friends in the FDIC? - Bronte Capital
• The threat that won’t go away - Robert Engle
• Plastic fantastic - Interfluidity
• Labour markets on the verge of a regulation crisis - voxeu.org
• The Curse of Nonuniqueness - The Finance Buff
• Bailed-Out Bank Tries Golden Parachute Loophole - ProPublica
• Nearly 1 million Californians seek medical care in Mexico annually - EurekAlert
• N. Atlantic fisheries collapse due to fisheries-induced evolution? - EurekAlert
• Matter and Antimatter, Angels and Demons (local event) - Steve Hsu

links for 2009-05-26

• France's Social Programs Shield Many From Downturn - washingtonpost
• Federal Reserve's Next Test: Reeling In Lifelines - washingtonpost.com
• Recommendations for the Supervision of Financial Markets - RTE
• At NIF, a Quest for Fusion Energy (or Maybe Folly) - NYTimes.com
• Retail clinic trend makes few inroads in poor, underserved areas - EurekAlert
• Susan Boyle: Another Unregulated High Risk Investment? - From the Square
• Betting with Bryan Caplan - Crooked Timber
• A neurotic reading of happiness research - Andrew Norton
• Preparing for Africa's boom - Paul Collier