Links for 07-31-2012

• Yet another discouraging GDP release - Econbrowser
• An Intriguing Idea to Encourage Bank Lending - Alan Blinder
• The Mysteries of Mitt Romney’s Financial Records - NYTimes.com
• Poverty Rate Would Nearly Double Without the Safety Net - CBPP
• Can We Start the Merkley Plan Now Using TARP - Rortybomb
• Kill the Money Multiplier! - mainly macro
• How most of the universe was lost - Scientific American
• Mario Draghi Shows the Power of Expectations - David Beckworth
• Adam Smith as Patron Saint of Supply-Side Liberalism? - Miles Kimball
• For Greece there is an alternative to austerity - Dean Baker
• When rules change, brain falters - EurekAlert
• Friedman's Contributions to Macroeconomics - David Laidler
• Unethical behavior in economics journals? - Andrew Gelman
• Romney’s Ignorance on the Palestine Economy - EconoSpeak
• Higher wages correlate with lower levels of employee theft - EurekAlert
• Bush Tax Cuts Provided Extremely Large Benefits to Wealthiest - CBPP
• How the ECB came to control the fate of the world economy - Mark Weisbrot
• Europe’s Zero-Sum Poison - Jean Pisani-Ferry
• Corporate crime: basic economics - Chris Dillow
• Doing A Cameron - Paul Krugman
• Procyclicalists Across the Atlantic Too - Jeff Frankel
• How to Cut Skilled Labor Costs - Nancy Folbre
• Robert Samuelson Can't Find What Isn't There - Beat the Press
• Bill Keller Joins The Cut Social Security Gang - EconoSpeak
• Those (Us) Greedy Boomers - Jared Bernstein
• The Lucas critique and New Keynesian Models - Bruegel
• The Microfoundations Windmill - MacroMania