links for 2009-12-07

• Rising health costs take a bite out of raises - Ezra Klein
• Those unbelievable US payrolls - FT Alphaville
• Rethinking artificial intelligence - MIT News
• Defining Success for Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen - Robert Stavins
• The Awful Politics of the War Tax - Derek Thompson
• Debt Raters Avoid Overhaul After Crisis - NYTimes.com
• Still More Lessons from the Crisis - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Alleviating rural poverty - UnderstandingSociety
• Credit booms go wrong - voxeu.org
• Fed Chairman Bernanke forecasts a sluggish recovery - washingtonpost.com
• On That Misleading Unemployment Rate Statistics (Once Again) - EconoSpeak
• Frequently Asked Questions - FRB: Speech--Bernanke
• A job is good -- a good job is better - Short Stack
• No Free Lunch when It Comes to Bending the Curve - Progressive Fix
• The wage premium of ambidextrous footballers - voxeu.org
• Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? - Economix
• Unhelpful Hansen - Paul Krugman
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Economists Forum - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Market Talk - links
• The Stash - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Brad DeLong - links