links for 2007-09-07

• Democrats Prepare Bills to Tighten Loan Rules - New York Times
• Gramlich Sought to Improve Lives - John M. Berry
• Is distance dying at last? - vox eu
• Supply Side Bait and Switch - Ezra Klein
• After the Feast - Lockhart Speech - FRB Atlanta
• Jobs and Trade - Poole Speech - St. Louis Fed
• Analyzing and Assessing Banking Crises - FRB: Speech, Kroszner
• Four Fed Bank Presidents Decline to Endorse Rate Cut - Bloomberg.com
• Who would think that economic history and the history of economic thought are not part of economics? - Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
• Shoring Up the Middle - Harold Meyerson