links for 2011-01-25

• Financial Crisis Was Avoidable, Inquiry Concludes - NYTimes.com
• The Ryan Response - Paul Krugman
• SOTU - Paul Krugman
• Globalization Marches On - Jagdish Bhagwati
• House Prices and Months-of-Supply - Calculated Risk
• Why Don't Americans Live Longer? - NYTimes.com
• The Moral Heart of Economics - Edward L. Glaeser
• Two-speed Global Recovery Continues - Olivier Blanchard
• Why China missed the industrial revolution - voxeu.org
• Robert Shiller on Human Traits Essential to Capitalism - The Browser
• The Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti Business Conditions Index - Econbrowser
• Hidden in plain sight (cloaking) - MIT News
• Back To Full Employment, Losing the Demand Thing - Rortybomb
• The Demand-Side Temptation - Paul Krugman
• Some thoughtful criticism and a response - Raghuram Rajan
• The Global Inflation Debate -  Modeled Behavior
• Cost shifting as it used to be - The Incidental Economist
• Hospital cost shifting - Incidental Economist
• Why China hates loving the dollar - Martin Wolf
• The Economist Should Apologise to Adam Smith - Lost Legacy
• State of the Union: Obama's Economic Report Card - CBS MoneyWatch
• Balance Sheet Recessions, Foreclosures, and Cons. Spending - Rortybomb
• Lesson From Europe: Fiscal Austerity Kills Economies - New Deal 2.0
• Is the American economy recalculating? - The Economist