Links for 08-21-2012

• David Brooks Misrepresents the Romney/Ryan Medicare Plan - Kevin Drum
• Loan-to-income guidelines and  the housing boom - Calculated Risk
• Consumer Debt and the Economic Recovery - FRBSF
• Private-Market Tooth Fairy Can’t Cut Medicare Cost - Peter Orzag
• Robert Samuelson is Confused About Medicare, Again - Dean Baker
• Where Are the Real Conservative Intellectuals? - John Cassidy
• Winston Churchill thinks Paul Ryan says stupid things. - Eric Rauchway
• Why the Ryan-Romney Economic Plan would be a Disaster - Robert Reich
• What is a Beveridge Curve and What is it Telling Us? - Tim Taylor
• Economists Should Love Ryan’s Support of Policy Rules - Ed Dolan
• 'Americans For Inequality' Group Endorses Romney-Ryan - HuffPo
• Consolidation in the Health Insurance Market - pgl
• Why Central Planning? - Acemoglu and Robinson
• Paul Ryan Is A Hypocrite - Stan Collender
• Writing Off Poor Children - Nancy Folbre
• The Benefits of Freer Global Migration - Urbanization Project
• The Fed’s Emergency Liquidity Facilities - Liberty Street
• Anti-piracy regulation and competing with free - Digitopoly
• Joint outputs - Nick Rowe
• Copyright - Mile Kimball