links for 2009-09-21

• Looking to Healthy Banks to Lend to the F.D.I.C. - NYTimes.com
• Household debt, consumption and wealth - Ilian Mihov
• Political competition produces better politicians - voxeu.org
• New Light on the Plight of Winter Babies - WSJ.com
• A Critical Assessment of Estimates of Core Inflation - WP - Colin Bermingham
• Misperceptions About American Income Inequality - NBER - Robert Gordon
• Sadly for Paul Kedrosky, newspapers are not dead - Kids Prefer Cheese
• Meeting at Duke to discuss the Krugman critique - Hist. of Econ. Playground
• The next casualty of the financial crisis: public universities - PSD Blog
• Is the very idea of "economic development" racist? - Andrew Gelman
• As I read the debate over the stimulus... - Richard Green
• What's next? - Free exchange
• Why the Lehman failure did change everything - Economists' Forum
• It’s all over: The banks have won - The Great Debate
• Unemployment Insurance for the Great Recession - Brookings Institution
• Mankiw on Drugs - Cheap Talk
• This Is Greg Mankiw On Drugs -  Modeled Behavior
• Karl Smith Is Somewhat Bewildered by the State of Modern Macro - Brad DeLong
• What it means to predict a crisis - Marginal Revolution
• Alex Rosenberg on Cochrane and Economics - Leiter Reports
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• The Big Picture - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Brad DeLong - links