links for 2011-05-25

• Fed Investigating Goldman Mortgage Mod Violations - naked capitalism
• Google’s New Correlation Mining Tool: It Works! - Freakonomics
• I Sorta Told You So - Discourse.net
• Conley and Dupor, revised - Noahpinion
• Welfare Reform Not the “Success” Ryan Claims - CBPP
• Forecasts: What and How Do Business Economists Think? - Econbrowser
• Electron is surprisingly round, say Imperial scientists - EurekAlert
• Arguments About Regulation - Cheap Talk
• Paul Ryan Still Doesn't Get It - Robert Reich
• A World of Regions - Jeffrey D. Sachs
• NASA gives up on attempts to contact Spirit rover - Boing Boing
• What would it take for an American manufacturing revival? - Noahpinion
• Durable goods orders: more evidence of weakness - Rebecca Wilder
• Some Contingent Planning for Monetary Policy - Narayana Kocherlakota
• High Unemployment 'Most Pressing Legacy' of Financial Crisis - NYT
• State Revenues Are Barely Recovering - ThinkEcon
• Discretion versus Rules - The Street Light
• Cut and Grow? I Say No. - Jared Bernstein
• Following Up From This AM - Jared Bernstein
• What’s Left of the Ryan Plan? - The Baseline Scenario
• Stress Test Success and Bank Opacity - Liberty Street
• Offshoring Bias - Modeled Behavior