links for 2008-03-06

• The Times' Joe McCarthy - LA Times
• Fed's Beige Book: "Generally downbeat" - Calculated Risk
• Are Real Interest Rates Negative? - PGL
• Service Sector Rebounds, But Still Contracting - WSJ Economics Blog
• "Brain Reading" Device Predicts What People See - National Geographic
• O tempora, o mores - Willem Buiter
• Go with your gut -- intuition is more than just a hunch - EurekAlert
• R&D: Missing the wrong targets? - Vox EU
• China's amazing January reserve growth - Brad Setser
• What the Unemployment Rate Misses - Andrew Samwick
• Unemployment and the Unemployment Rate - Twenty-Cent Paradigms
• The Last War, or the One Before? - Twenty-Cent Paradigms
• The Age of DeLongian Confusion - Economic Investigations
• Norway's moon shot - Andrew Leonard
• A wish list for economic statistics? - Economics Unbound
• In Europe, Central Banking Is Different - New York Times
• Fed Says Real Estate and Retailing Are Soft - New York Times
• Financial Mess Doesn't Worry All Central Banks - John M. Berry
• No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service - Crooked Timber