Links for 01-23-2013

• The microfoundations of banking - Free exchange
• Wealth-Income Ratios in the Long Run - Tim Taylor
• The Macroeconomic Task Ahead - Econbrowser
• Outsourcing tide is not likely to turn - FT.com
• An eternity of infinities - Scientific American
• The Non-Surge in Government Spending - Paul Krugman
• A plug for optimal currency areas - Frances Woolley
• Government Expenditure Growth - Modeled Behavior
• Government Spending deflated by the GDP deflator - Robert Waldmann
• Is There a Poison Pill in the Debt Ceiling Bill? - Discourse.net
• The Most Important Graph on the Deficit - Rortybomb
• Seneca, Selma, and Stonewall - Paul Krugman
• Macro always fights the last war - Noahpinion
• Japan and the Formation of Inflation Expectations - Carola Binder
• How Has the Liberal Project Fared Under President Obama? - Rortybomb
• What Can Obama Do about Climate Change? - Scientific American
• The Vision and the Budget - Jeffrey Sachs
• 2013 Kauffman Foundation Webloggers' Conference - Brad DeLong
• Actuaries Confirm That Scare Talk on Social Security Is Off-Base - CBPP
• Central Bank Independence - Gloomy European Economist
• E.U. States Get Blessing for Financial Trading Tax - NYT
• Ben Bernanke vs. Milton Friedman - RealClearPolicy
• Contra Raghu Rajan: Economic Stimulus Has Not Failed - Brad DeLong
• Inequality's effects - Stumbling and Mumbling
• When Tax Cuts Were a Tough Sell - Economix
• Students whose parents pay for more of college - Andrew Gelman
• Is the corporate income tax progressive? - Tax Justice Network