links for 2010-04-10

• How to reduce risk on Wall Street? Make the banks pay. - Washington Post
• A Consumption Tax, Revisited - Letter - NYTimes.com
• Will More Immigration Save Social Security? - EconoSpeak
• Ron Paul: Barack Obama is Not a Socialist - Washington Wire - WSJ
• Do rising oil prices threaten the economic recovery? - Jim Hamilton
• Why China's exchange rate is a red herring - voxeu
• Has America Really Become Economically Unfree? - Capital Gains and Games
• Five myths about China's economy - Washington Post
• How should we make economic forecasts? - voxeu
• Fix The Dodd Bill – Use The Kanjorski Amendment - The Baseline Scenario
• Greenspan Comments on Gramlich Draw Criticism - NYTimes.com