Links for 03-05-2013

• Sessions Isn’t a Wonk McCarthyite, or a Wonk Anything - Jonathan Chait
• How sports analytics have become a real game-changer - MIT News
• Policy wonks, pitchforks, and the contradictions of capitalism - Interfluidity
• Measuring the Quality of an Estimator - Dave Giles
• Can evolution save the elephant? - Frances Woolley
• 60 percent loss of forest elephants in Africa confirmed - EurekAlert
• The American People agree with George Orwell - Richard Green
• Foreclosures' Silver Lining: Restraining Rent Inflation - FRB Dallas
• What Obama Should Do Now - Robert Reich
• Meanwhile, From Alan Blinder - Paul Krugman
• TANF Provided a Weak Safety Net During and After Recession - CBPP
• Cockroaches at the European Commission - Paul Krugman
• Ending "Too Big to Fail" - FRB: Speeches - Powell
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Quantitative Easing - WSJ
• Lessons of the Sequester - The Baseline Scenario
• Bernanke, Bankers, Bubbles - Carola Binder
• Are Sticky Prices Costly? (NBER) -- Gorodnichenko and Weber
• How Obama's Politics Led to Sequestration - Jeffrey Sachs
• Blogs review: The Minimum Wage debate - Bruegel Blog
• Student Loan Snapshots - Tim Taylor
• Robert Samuelson ID's the Sequester Culprit: John Kennedy - Dean Baker
• Deep Underground, Worms and 'Zombie Microbes' Rule - Scientific American
• How the Nation Resolved Its First Debt Ceiling Crisis - Liberty Street
• Minimal Wages, Minimal Families - Economix
• Is Olli Rehn Talking to Lord Keynes About Fiscal Policy? - EconoSpeak
• Bank of Japan Pick Kuroda Pledges Action to Beat Deflation - WSJ