links for 2007-10-18

• Fed's Inflation Gauge to Soften Further - WSJ Economics Blog
• Banks’ Safety Net for Lenders May Have Holes in It - New York Times
• Researchers confirm the power of altruism in Wikipedia - EurekAlert
• Most corn went to corn syrup - Sciam Observations
• Fossilized cashew nuts reveal important route - EurekAlert
• Big test for the ‘great convergence’ - Martin Wolf
• Poverty line out of touch with costs - Los Angeles Times
• Privatizing A Cut Of The Public Sector - The Notion
• On the Success of Inflation Targeting - Zubin Jelveh - Portfolio.com
• Significant gains in educational achievement by blacks go underappreciated - EPI
• More EU influence at the IMF with fewer chairs - Ahearne and Eichengreen
• Google Datapoint of the Day - Felix Salmon
• Plan Would Ease F.C.C. Restriction on Media Owners - New York Times
• Apple to Open iPhone Programming to Outsiders - New York Times
• New Battle of Logging vs. Spotted Owls Looms in West - New York Times