Links for 08-07-2012

• Whack-a-Mole Wall Street Journal/Arthur Laffer Edition - Brad DeLong
• Arthur Laffer, Anti-Enlightenment Economist - Uneasy Money
• Governor Romney Re-Calibrates Employment Forecasts - Econbrowser
• Stop rigging system against small business - Elizabeth Warren
• Romney's Tax Plan is Mathematically Impossible - Next New Deal
• How Do You Count Parallel Universes? - Scientific American
• Ideology and Comparative Development - Acemoglu and Robinson
• A Slowdown in Growth, an Increase in Income Inequality - NYTimes.com
• Investment, employment trends belie claims - Economic Policy Institute
• Poorest at risk if states opt out of Medicaid expansion - EurekAlert
• Those who are covered, recover - EurekAlert
• Pricey Oil, Cheap Natural Gas, and Energy Costs - FRBSF
• The Fed should buy stocks instead of bonds - Heleen Mees
• EPA on Value of a Life - Tim Taylor
• Extended Benefits Come to an End - CBPP
• Taking Jeffrey Sachs to School - Dean Baker
• Waiting in Vain for the Quick Fix - Jeffrey Sachs
• The Japanese tragedy, causes and consequences - Noahpinion
• Laffer’s Case for Fiscal Ineffectiveness - PGL
• Intraday Liquidity Flows - Liberty Street Economics
• Robert Samuelson ... again - Dean Baker