links for 2010-09-08

• Popper on Rationality - The Leisure of the Theory Class
• Fed Report Finds Signs Growth Is Slowing - NYTimes.com
• Fiscal policy: So crowded, no one's working anymore - The Economist
• SF Fed Official: Economy Still Making ‘Forward Progress’ - Real Time Economics
• Consumer Credit Declines in July - Calculated Risk
• Text of Obama’s Remarks on the Economy - Washington Wire
• Mitch Daniels: 'We all share a common problem' - Ezra Klein
• Free the food truck - Ed Glaeser
• Japanese Demography - Paul Krugman
• More on Massive Quantitative Easing - John Taylor
• Pushing Back on “Unenlightened” Economic Discourse - Open Economics
• Highlights (and lowlights) from the Beige Book - FT Alphaville
• The Possibilities of Happiness - Maxine Udall
• The Tortoise Economy - Robert Reich
• How Does Obesity in Adults Affect Spending on Health Care? - CBO
• I Can Only Sputter (about Fed nominee Diamond) - Arnold Kling
• Back Inside the FOMC - Narayana Kocherlakota
• Mind the Curve! Market Expectations and the Zero Bound - Macroadvisers
• The weekly papers - The Economist
• Fixing America’s Broken Housing Market - Joseph Stiglitz
• One Small Step for Recovery, One Giant Leap Still Needed - Marshall Auerback
• Leading German Economist Demands More Workers from Abroad - Spiegel
• Blogging as crack - Nick Rowe