links for 2009-12-08

• BLS: Near Record Low Labor Turnover - Calculated Risk
• Commodity prices and the Fed - Econbrowser
• What Makes Cities Great - Ed Glaeser
• Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study - EurekAlert
• Pre-Crisis Problems in Financial Institutions - David Beckworth
• The Psychology of Social Status - Scientific American
• Kick-starting the green innovation machine - voxeu.org
• Why the EU needs a border tax on carbon - voxeu.org
• Why China’s exchange rate policy concerns us - Martin Wolf
• Congress May Be Finding the Nerve to Cut Health Costs - NYTimes.com
• Q&A: Financial Innovation -- A Blessing or a Curse? - Fama/French Forum
• Non-Reform of Rating Agencies - naked capitalism
• The Stash - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Money Supply - links
• Economists Forum - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Brad DeLong - links