links for 2011-06-05

• Elizabeth Warren and Consumer Protection - James Surowiecki
• The Durbin Amendment Rollback - Credit Slips
• Reducing relative poverty - Consider the Evidence
• Was the global food crisis really a crisis? - Vox EU
• Neglect of the shadow banking system - Economists' Forum
• 2011 Private Employment is 2% Below 2001 Levels - The Big Picture
• Should the AER drop double-anonymous review? - Crooked Timber
• Why do safe, liquid assets become so expensive...? - Matt Rognlie
• Business Expansion and the Political Climate - Paul Krugman
• Financial Mkts More Concerned with Recovery than Debt - MoneyWatch
• Could Fast Food Automation Replace Low Wage Workers? - econfuture
• Kansas City-style Financial Reform- Perry Mehrling
• QE2: What it Did, and What it Didn't Do - Kash Mansori
• Life without QE2 - Econbrowser