Links for 01-11-2013

• MIT economist Josh Angrist’s natural experiments - Peter Dizikes
• Japan Approves $116 Billion in Emergency Economic Stimulus - NYT
• Chart of the day: Projected Medicare spending – ctd - Austin Frakt
• Growth slowdowns redux: Avoiding the middle-income trap - vox
• Right-Wing Worthies and Reputational Consequences - Brad DeLong
• Conversations with the Fed - Narayana Kocherlakota
• Marvin Goodfriend on Electronic Money - Miles Kimball
• Program Cuts Far Outweigh Tax Increases in Deficit Reduction - CBPP
• Economists and the public are both right about free trade - Richard Green
• Era of independent central banks is over - FT.com
• The Mostly Solved Deficit Problem - Paul Krugman
• Thinking About the Brink - Paul Krugman
• Understanding risk aversion in financial markets - Econbrowser
• A new Obama in no mood to compromise - FT.com
• Potential Problem Amid Big Fed Profit - WSJ
• The Moral Imperative of a Debt Ceiling - EconoSpeak
• On diminishing capital intensity - FT Alphaville
• FTC Data on Horizontal Merger Enforcement - Tim Taylor
• Blogs review: The trillion-dollar platinum coin - Bruegel
• Betrayed by Basel - Simon Johnson
• Debt Ceiling Hostage Enablers - Jon Chait
• ET, phone home - Kids Prefer Cheese
• Debt Ceiling and Guns - Robert Reich
• Between Greece and Zimbabwe - Brad DeLong