links for 2010-04-19

• The Senate wants higher income taxes in lieu of a VAT? - News N Economics
• How Wall Street Became a Giant Casino - NYTimes.com
• What to do about CDO ratings? - Angry Bear
• Greenspan's Delusions - Chris Hayes
• Recovery: Is it the aggregate demand? - The Economist
• Squashing the Goldman vampire squid - Dean Baker
• Defending Goldman - Conglomerate Blog
• Goldman, ACA, and Paulson - Conglomerate Blog
• Fraud and Fecklessness on Wall Street - The New Yorker
• Value-Added Taxes: A Primer - Economix
• It Slices, It Dices (Calculus) - Opinionator
• No Resolution in Sight in Fed Blame Game - Real Time Economics
• FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods - wash post
• Emerging Market Countries and the Crisis: How Have They Coped? - IMF Blog
• Investigating Inequality - Economix
• The Bankrupt Theology of Financial Deregulation - Project Syndicate
• Ideal types, values, and selectivity - UnderstandingSociety
• naked capitalism - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Market Talk - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Free Exchange - links