Links for 2012-03-29

• Why is their recovery better than ours? - Adam Posen
• Housing bubbles and interest rates - Vox EU
• A rational reason for high oil prices - Econbrowser
• Insurance or Redistribution? - The Baseline Scenario
• Big setback for mountaintop mining critics - Center for Public Integrity
• The balance sheet recession, charted - FT Alphaville
• 1 Big Chart: There Is No Social Security Crisis - Matthew O'Brien
• Should Canadian professors be paid in US dollars? - Frances Woolley
• The Evolving World Production Function - Tim Taylor
• Phone service for all, no matter what kind - David Cay Johnston
• The best kept secret in the job market - Environmental Economics
• The Enduring Consequences of Unemployment - NYTimes.com
• The Bathtub Model of Unemployment - Liberty Street
• It's Always Time For Austerity - Paul Krugman
• Information, Money and Politics - mainly macro
• A Tiebout Solution? - Jared Bernstein
• Offsetting exploiters - The Economist
• The Best Data on Middle Class Decline - Political Economist:
• The Dangers of an Interventionist Fed - John Taylor
• Competing Visions - National Priorities Project
• Scientific failures: particle physics vs. macroeconomics - Noahpinion
• Soak the Rich? - Uneasy Money
• Jonathan Gruber, Health Care’s Mr. Mandate - NYTimes.com
• A responsible budget from the Congressional Progressive Caucus - EPI