Links for 2012-01-08

• The zero lower bound in our minds - Ryan Avent
• Two cheers for financial innovation - MacroScope
• Bankers’ bonuses and the financial crisis - Ian Tonks
• An Election Too Close to Call, as Seen in an Economic Lens - NYTimes.com
• On the Capture of Economists - Bloomberg
• What China Can Teach Europe - NYTimes.com
• Americans and Innumeracy - The Monkey Cage
• Some Deep Wonkery on Moving Seasonality - Jared Bernstein
• The Art of Bargaining, Lost Upon Washington - Richard Thaler
• The Fed Is Financing the ECB's Support For European Banks - EconoSpeak
• Time to junk income taxes? - David Cay Johnston
• Tech, Agency and Corporate Cash - Modeled Behavior
• Why do corporations hold so much cash? - Modeled Behavior
• C. R. Rao - Dave Giles