Links for 02-23-2013

• What if housing inventory keeps falling? - Calculated Risk
• More Swiss Myths - Paul Krugman
• The safe asset shortage - Bruegel Blog
• What Our Brains Can Teach Us - NYT
• Discoveries in Deepest Trenches on Earth - Scientific American
• Keys to new American innovation - MIT News
• Intelligence boosts for everyone! - Noahpinion
• Predicting a Crisis, Repeatedly - Economix
• Cash or Credit? Payments and Finance in Ancient Rome - Liberty Street
• Chronicles of a Reverse Helicopter Drop - Carola Binder
• International Cooperation in Financial Regulation - Dan Tarullo
• Fed’s Rosengren: Benefits of Fed Bond-Buying Outweigh Risks - WSJ
• Fed’s Williams: Future Concerns Shouldn’t Stop Aggressive Action Now - WSJ
• Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy - Jeremy Powell
• Is there a tipping point for government debt? - Neil Irwin
• Fed Officials Reject Fears Over Bond Buying - WSJ
• The Financial Cycle: Theory and Implications - Tim Taylor
• The Spring is Nice, but then Comes Fall - Gloomy European Economist
• Defining value: One giant panda at a time - Environmental Economics
• The long-run gains of not mixing genders in high-school classes - Vox EU
• Encouraging irrationality - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Japanese emission controls and global warming? - Frances Woolley
• Is the tide turning? - John Quiggin
• Shame - Interfluidity