links for 2010-07-08

• Walking Away From Million-Dollar Mortgages - NYTimes.com
• U.S. Declines to Label China a Currency Manipulator - WSJ.com
• The Real Tragedy of Persistent Unemployment - Mohamed El-Erian
• Blaming the Victim Won’t Solve State Fiscal Crisis - CBPP
• America needs a growth strategy - Michael Spence
• The Fed fesses up - TheMoneyIllusion
• Consumer Borrowing Dropped Again in May - RTE
• Protest and the politics of dissent - Daniel Little
• How Much Can The Fed Help? (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• A safer world financial system - voxeu
• There's Probably More Than One Road to Serfdom - Maxine Udall
• Is it time to experiment with negative interest rates? - Economists' Forum
• The dollar question: Where are we? - voxeu
• The weekly papers - The Economist
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decline to 454,000 - Calculated Risk
• Economix - links
• Market Talk - links
• Market Wise - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Brad DeLong - links