links for 2007-08-18

• More on the Fed's Discount Window Action - WSJ Economics Blog
• What's behind the latest trend in foreign-born CEOs? - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
• Using Discount Window Is Sign of Strength, Fed Says - WSJ Economics Blog
• Poole Aimed to Reduce Suspicion With Absence - WSJ Economics Blog
• Capitalism, Jesus and Academic Freedom - Twenty-Cent Paradigms
• Bailing out the Speculators - Robert Reich
• Power drains from lame-duck presidency - FT.com
• Whose Report Is It, Anyway? - Dan Froomkin (Patraeus Report)
• Being Right Is Bittersweet for a Critic (Gramlich) of Lenders - New York Times
• An Act of Economic Madness - The Nation
• A Better Way to Feed the Hungry - New York Times
• Unsnarling the Autobahn: How to Forecast Traffic Jams Days in Advance - Spiegel Online