links for 2011-03-24

• Why Rising Food and Energy Prices Are Not a Worry - NYTimes.com
• Dividend Lost - The Baseline Scenario
• Artifacts in Texas predate Clovis culture by 2,500 years - EurekAlert
• Japan must dip into its rainy day fund - Reinhart and Reinhart
• Grameen vs. Bangladesh - Jagdish Bhagwati
• The Great Depression and life expectancy in the US - EurekAlert
• Romer Interview - Ezra Klein
• Glasnost! (Fed Press Conferences) - Twenty-Cent Paradigms
• More on that commodities vs global demand chart - FT Alphaville
• Are Speculators to Blame? - Big Picture Agriculture
• How preferential is world trade? - voxeu.org
• Why do African banks lend so little? - voxeu.org
• Liberals on Social Security Reform - NYTimes.com
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decline - Calculated Risk