links for 2011-09-08

• Bernanke Offers No New Fed Aid for Economy - NYTimes.com
• Should the Fed target unemployment? - The Economist
• Good and bad currency wars - Nick Rowe
• Fed Prepares to Act - WSJ.com
• Romney on Free Trade  - pgl
• Job Plan Hinges on Cut to Social Security Tax - NYTimes.com
• The scapegoating of Ben Bernanke - Robert Samuelson
• Fed’s Plosser: Monetary Policy Can’t Help Jobs - WSJ
• How Obama is to the Right of Reagan on Trade - TripleCrisis
• Is Inflation the Answer? - Raghuram Rajan
• You Get What You Pay For - Simon Johnson
• Unemployment Claims increase to 414,000 - Calculated Risk
• Trade Deficit decreased sharply in July - Calculated Risk
• Precautionary price stickiness - NEP-DGE