links for 2010-05-16

• BP Stands for Bad Petroleum - Robert Reich
• Inflation, taxation, and the underground economy - Econbrowser
• Central bankers get with the politics - Clive Crook
• Exploring the “Job Gap” - Brookings Institution
• Rational Health Investment? - Maxine Udall
• How Will They Spin This? - Paul Krugman
• An Ode to Crisis Economics - Models & Agents
• Papandreou Weighs Legal Action Against US Banks - naked capitalism
• Involuntary Unemployment and the Business Cycle - NEP-DGE Blog
• How overhaul of Fed policy may play out - Washington Post
• Neoliberal Neoconservatism at War with the Troops - EconoSpeak
• Why Bad Beliefs Don’t Die - realitybase
• Suit Asks for Names of Online Commenters - NYTimes.com
• Too Soon for a Sustained Recovery? - Economic Word
• The World trading system without US leadership - voxeu
• The European Union rescues Greece and Portugal - The New Yorker
• Whatever happened to Ireland? - voxeu
• Brad DeLong - links
• Marginal Revolution - links 
• Credit Writedowns - links 
• Market Wise - links 
• Abnormal Returns - links 
• naked capitalism - links