links for 2010-10-21

• The tax cut that failed - Ezra Klein
• Fed’s Bullard Prefers Asset Purchases in Small Increments - RTE
• The Fannie-Freddie Problem is not as severe as suggested - Richard Green
• Big Ideas from Small Countries - Jeff Frankel
• Both Carbon-Pricing and Technology Are Necessary - Robert Stavins
• Denial on Two Fronts, Climate and Keynes - EconoSpeak
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims: Moving Sideways - Calculated Risk
• Time for Some New Stress Tests for Banks - Simon Johnson
• Not Letting It Happen Here: The Lost Decade of Japan -  Modeled Behavior
• Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes - Bloomberg
• Malpractice Methodology - NYTimes.com
• Ten years of exchange-market pressure - voxeu.org
• Measuring the Public Benefits From Taxes - tax.com
• Age comes before austerity - Tim Harford
• Free Exchange - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Real Time Economics - links
• Economix - links
• Naked Capitalism - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• FT Alphaville - links