links for 2007-11-22

• Have we sealed the universe's fate by looking at it? - EurekAlert
• Who’s the Richest [Country] of Them All? - WSJ Economics Blog
• Dazzle Them with Demographics - James K. Galbraith - Texas Observer
• A thought about political discourse - Paul Krugman Blog
• The Laffer Curve of Leftist Economics? - YouNotSneaky!
• The Laffer curve is all wrong - Bluematter
• Intergenerational payoffs from mothers’ education - Vox EU
• The Market for Scientists and Engineers - NBER Reporter - Richard Freeman
• Moyers & FDR - The Nation