links for 2011-02-13

• Progress report on QE2 - Econbrowser
• Wall Street’s Dead End - Felix Salmon
• Awareness of poverty over three centuries - voxeu.org
• GOP to Block Renewal of Build America Bonds Program - WSJ.com
• Who's Unemployed? - Paul Krugman
• The Debate over Budget Cuts - Robert Reich
• The ECB would quash a discrete shift in German NGDP - Angry Bear
• What do you mean it was Hiybbing? - Virulent Word of Mouse
• Axel Weber’s odd justification for his resignation - Economics Intelligence
• Book Review - Triumph of the City By Edward Glaeser - NYTimes.com
• Democracy in a polarized society - UnderstandingSociety
• Paulson Denies Culpability in Crisis... - naked capitalism