Links for 07-20-2012

• Microfoundations would be nice if we had them - Noahpinion
• The Federal Reserve and the Libor Scandal - Simon Johnson
• Making Ourselves Useless - Paul Krugman
• Six Policies Economists Love (And Politicians Hate) - NPR
• Signs of a Slowing U.S. Economy - NYTimes.com
• Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates - Hanson and Stein
• Keynes's "grand scheme for the rehabilitation of Europe" - Eric Rauchway
• The IMF explodes the myth of fiscal "credibility" - Jonathan Portes
• Regulation of Libor and Shelby’s Benefit-Cost Analysis - Econbrowser
• Dr. Smith and the Asset Bubble - Miles Kimball
• Four Issues with Federal Lines of Credit” - Rortybomb
• Tradable sectors in the Eurozone periphery - vox
• The First World’s Fiscal Follies - Jeffrey Frankel
• When is the Financial Industry Too Big? - Tim Taylor
• What's Romney Got to Hide? (Part III) - ataxingmatter
• The Problem Isn't Outsourcing... - Robert Reich