links for 2008-06-11

• The US trade deficit is getting worse, not better - Brad Setser 
• Fisher's letter in The Economists' Voice - Environmental Economics
• Taxing the Upper-Middle Class - Tom Bozzo
• McCain: Obama as Jimmy Carter’s Second Term - pgl
• Is a Windfall Tax a Populist Pander? - Felix Salmon
• Fedspeak Highlights: Fisher on Inflation - Real Time Economics
• A Savings Puzzle - Economics Unbound
• Opting out myth: Steep employment gains for women, mothers - EurekAlert
  
• When Your Priors Obscure the Obvious (transportation) - The Bellows
• Mister Maverick, Meet Da Machine - WSJ.com
• Judge Glock Corrects me - Richard Green
• Hungry Venezuelans Reaping Bounty of Oil Revenue - National Geographic
• Sweden redux - Kathy G
• Standing Up for Workers’ Rights in Japan - NYTimes.com
• Recession versus Negative Output Gap - Econbrowser
• Meet the Intraterrestrials - Olivia Judson