links for 2009-03-11

• Moral hazard and AIG - Econbrowser
• Was it All the Fault of the Quants? - Felix Salmon
• Banks Counted on Looting America’s Coffers - NYTimes.com
• How to get the Doha Round back on track - Robert Baldwin
• The Insurance Solution - Eswar Prasad
• The silliest Republican economic proposal yet - Andrew leonard
• Why did US trade grow? The role of trade liberalisation - voxeu.org
• Bernard Madoff: The Villain America Needed - The Big Money
• Charlie Rose: A conversation with Timothy Geithner [video] - Calculated Risk
• Is Monetary Policy Effective During Financial Crises? - NBER - Mishkin
• Stock-Market Crashes and Depressions - NBER - Barro and Ursua
• Metaphors for history - Understanding Society
• Let's pick on Greg Mankiw - Free exchange
• Paul Krugman’s false logical step - Bronte Capital
• Why Obama's Student Loan Proposal Should be Adopted - Linda Beale
• Premature despair (response to Duy) - Free exchange
• Chait on Schlaes - Matthew Yglesias