links for 2011-05-16

• When is it worth remanufacturing? - MIT News
• The Battle is Squared - Robert Reich
• Robert Samuelson Is Lazy - Dean Baker
• Bernanke Speaks on Government Role in Research - NYTimes.com
• What To Do If The Debt Ceiling Is Not Raised? Ignore It - Barkley Rosser
• Is America mis-thinking its trade strategy? Part 2 - Richard Baldwin
• Policy Mistakes and the Euro-Zone Debt Crisis - Kash Mansori
• The Silliness of Spending Caps - James Kwak
• Insult Retractions: A (Very) Occasional Feature - Jon Chait
• What Does a Liberal Member of the Federal Reserve Look Like? - Rortybomb
• The Rich Are “Different” — But Don’t Treat Them That Way - CBPP
• Are Inflation Expectations becoming Unanchored? - Liberty Street
• Obama's Spine - Robert's Stochastic Thoughts
• The Original QE Program: A Smashing Success - David Beckworth
• What Is the Value of Bank Output? - FRBSF Economic Letter
• Bond market optimism should scare us - Greg Ip
• We're Number Two? - Kash Mansori
• Economics for Sale - Nancy Folbre
• A Loan and a Prayer - Roubini and Mihm
• Means-Testing Doublethink - Paul Krugman
• Does the AEA finally get a competitor? - Economics Intelligence
• How Europe Should Treat Sovereign Debt in the Future - Jeff Frankel
• Old ideas that never die (monetary policy edition) - Matt Rognlie