Links for 2011-12-10

• A Summit to the Death - Kevin O'Rourke
• The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street - Robert Reich
• Inflating Your Way To Prosperity - Paul Krugman
• Fannie, Freddie Put Forth to Cover Payroll Tax Cut - WSJ.com
• Escaping the Oil Curse - Jeffrey Frankel
• Amazon’s new exclusivity drive - Digitopoly
• Globalisation and higher education: Different degrees of success - Vox EU
• Identification problems in the debate on taxing top earners - Stephen Gordon
• Euro lacks a government banker, not lender of last resort - Thomas Palley
• The Private Insurance Market - The Baseline Scenario
• Social Insurance and Individual Freedom - Uwe Reinhardt
• The IMF and the Collateral Crunch - Perry Mehrling
• What can the ECB do? - Antonio Fatas