links for 2011-07-19

• The Crazy Train - The Monkey Cage
• The Glenn Beck/DeBeers Connection - Paul Krugman
• The Case for Parallel Universe - Scientific American
• What Kind of Country Reneges on Its Contracts? - Justin Fox
• Academic freedom from Hofstadter to Dworkin - Dan Little
• Obama and G.O.P. Plot Way to Win in a Down Economy - NYTimes.com
• Two Regional Fed Banks Voted to Raise Discount Rate - Real Time Economics
• Government: Bigger than a breadbox, smaller than a planet - The Economist
• Is Weak Aggregate Demand Really the Main Problem? - David Beckworth
• Scribblers and Madmen - Paul Krugman
• Money Supply Jumps, but No Inflation Threat Foreseen - RTE
• When Math(s) Turns Out To Be Useful - Scientific American
• What’s Fundamentally Wrong With EMH - Uneasy Money
• It's wrong to compare Italy to Japan - News N Economics
• The most important chart in health policy - Incidental Economist
• Why Doesn’t Understand Public Finance? - EconoSpeak
• Dodd-Frank Still Under Fire a Year Later - NYTimes.com
• Amazon.com launches Kindle textbook rentals - latimes.com