links for 2011-03-01

• How Democrats Can Become Relevant Again - Robert Reich
• Warren Buffett Wants Your Taxes - David Cay Johnston
• Global Imbalances without Tears - Kenneth Rogoff
• The GOP's Economist Du Jour, A History - The New Republic
• Bernanke talks fiscal policy with Congress - Money Supply
• Why conservatives hate trains - Noahpinion
• The imaginary public sector pension fund crisis - Andrew Leonard
• Do Queues for Public Sector Jobs Tell Us Anything? - Angry Bear
• Why the GOP won't get blamed for a govt. shutdown - Andrew Leonard
• Crowding Out Watch, Updated - Econbrowser
• Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress - Ben Bernanke
• E-Ties That Bind - Edward L. Glaeser
• The wrong SHOE - History of Economics Playground
• McArdle Uses Straw Men Against Principal Mods - naked capitalism
• England's Glorious Revolution - UnderstandingSociety
• Climate Change and the Water Crisis in the U.S. Southwest - TripleCrisis
• Core Uptick (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman