links for 2009-01-04

• How to Repair a Broken Financial World - NYTimes.com
• The End of the Financial World as We Know It - NYTimes.com
• Obama Considers Major Expansion in Aid to Jobless - NYTimes.com
• America's economic meltdowns - Los Angeles Times
• The cat-and-mouse between governments and banks - voxeu.org
• Protecting poor children in the US - voxeu.org
• Supervising the credit giants with progressive capital ratios - voxeu.org
• Fed's Bullard: Regional Feds Active in Discount Window Lending - RTE
• AEA Econ Bloggers Lunch - Growthology
• The economics of scientific collaboration - Michael Nielsen
• Long-Term Economic Challenges - Charles Evans - FRB Chicago
• Private investment by central banks - Knowing and Making