Links for 10-02-2012

• The Case Against a CEO in the Oval Office - Alan Blinder
• Distributional Impacts of Tax Cuts and Spending Cuts - Jared Bernstein
• Five Questions about the Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy - Ben Bernanke
• The Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its coral in the last 27 years - EurekAlert
• Charter City Plan to Fight Honduras Poverty Loses Initiator - NYTimes.com
• The Economic Outlook and Federal Reserve Policy - John Williams
• Cost of Decisionmaking Influences Individual Selections - Dallas Fed
• Demographics, Redistribution, and Optimal Inflation - Bullard, Garriga, Waller
• Unemployment Rates Across the Euro Area – The Wilder View
• Does Google get a good ROI in KC? - Digitopoly
• One-Hit Wonders - James Kwak
• Is "Y=C+I" a PPF? - Nick Rowe
• Middle-Skill Jobs Are Lagging - WSJ
• Framing worker democracy - Chris Dillow
• A Word on Private Equity from Mitt Romney - Invictus
• Gaming US Fiscal Reform - Mohamed A. El-Erian
• Euro Counterfactuals (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• The Year of the Cooperative - Nancy Folbre
• Is U.S. Monetary Policy Seasonal? - Liberty Street