links for 2009-10-09

• Modified goldbugism at the WSJ - Paul Krugman
• Radical Reform of Executive Pay - Freakonomics
• Oligopoly in Alaska’s wholesale gasoline market - Knowledge Problem
• Trade Picture Worsens in August - BusinessWeek
• The United States Trade Deficit Shrank in August - NYTimes.com
• How an inconvenient economist upset the cool crowd - Tim Harford
• Making the ‘public option’ a simple one - The Boston Globe
• Rebuilding employment - UnderstandingSociety
• Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis - The Irish Economy
• The Fed Doesn’t Really Understand Asset Bubbles - Economix
• Felix Salmon - links
• Paul Kedrosky - links
• Economix - links
• Creative Class - Links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links