links for 2011-03-29

• Does Core Inflation Predict Overall Inflation? - NYTimes.com
• Why We're Fasting - NYTimes.com
• Contraction is Contractionary - Paul Krugman
• Friends don’t let friends get into finance - The Berkeley Blog
• As Economy Sputters, a Timid Fed - NYTimes.com
• The Three Monetary Systems During the Civil War - David Beckworth
• The Costs of the Toubled Asset Relief Program - CBO Director's Blog
• Consumption spending slowing down - Econbrowser
• In Which I Disagree With Mike Mandel - Modeled Behavior
• Where the Bank Bailout Went Wrong - NYTimes.com
• U.S. House of Representatives v. modern science - The Berkeley Blog
• Friedrich Hayek, Zombie - Paul Krugman
• Bills to create state bank in Oregon come into limelight - Register Guard
• A Chat with Mathematical Sociologist Duncan Watts - Scientific American
• Is It Inflation, or Are Relative Prices Increasing? - Daniel Indiviglio
• China’s Five-Year Plan and Global Interest Rates - Martin Feldstein
• Men's Earnings Have not Declined by 28 Percent Since 1969! - Scott Winship
• How Many Things Can You Get Wrong in One Column - Dean Baker
• Core Inflation: Much Ado About Nothing - David Beckworth
• Fiscal vs. Monetary policy; a fiscal suggestion - Rogue Economist Rants
• More on Assertion about Growth Through Consolidation -  Modeled Behavior
• What more can the Fed do ? - Angry Bear