links for 2008-06-28

• In Bear Bailout, Fed Says It Tried to Avert Contagion - NYTimes.com
• Senate Confirms Duke to Fed Board - Real Time Economics
• Oil splat - Marginal Revolution
• Why U.S. Consumer Spending is Overstated - Economics Unbound
• Does the Housing Bubble Have to Pop? - The American Prospect
• Wine economics and economical wine - Vox EU
• Oenometrics - Andrew Leigh
• Does the Fed’s mandate extend to Beijing, Moscow and Riyahd? - Brad Setser
• Evaluating journal publication performance - Vox EU
• 1000 years of urban history: rise and fall of European and Arab cities - Vox EU
• Dubious Cap-and-Trade Skepticism - Twenty-Cent Paradigms