Links for 07-09-2013

• Urp Versus Derp - Paul Krugman
• State and Local Jobs: Stuck in a Deep Hole - CBPP
• Consumer debt is soaring. That’s good news (for now) - Neil Irwin
• Let’s Talk about Oil - macroblog
• Safer Sweatshops - Paul Krugman
• The State of the Unions - Prospect.org
• Government–Not Business– the Source of Breakthrough Innovation - EPI
• A Difference Between a Great Recession and Great Depression - Justin Fox
• Robert Samuelson Gets Vacation Story Mostly Right - Beat the Press
• State GDP shows a manufacturing rebound in 2012 - The Wilder View
• What Caused the Decline in Long-term Yields? - FRBSF Economic Letter
• Why Comcast Would Rather Be Feared Than Loved - Justin Fox
• Incidence and Price Discrimination: Housing Vouchers - owenzidar
• The inflationistas are our friends - Nick Rowe
• How Bad Is the Bernanke Taper? - Beat the Press
• Why is there more cash than ever? - Zachary Goldfarb
• Political Inflationistas - Paul Krugman
• The wrong time - Chris Dillow
• Long-Term Care Services - Tim Taylor
• The Italian Job - Gloomy European Economist
• The TE Story - Cheap Talk
• What If We Properly Valued the Web? - Miles Kimball
• The Costs of “Good” Economics - The Baseline Scenario
• Do Bank Shocks Affect Aggregate Investment? - Liberty Street
• Dispatch From Europe - NYTimes.com
• Not Like Ike - Paul Krugman
• Duy on Tapering in September - Calculated Risk
• Urbanisation and migration externalities in China - vox
• Inflationphobia, Part I - NYTimes.com
• Inflation and Debt - Econbrowser
• Fumbling Through the Fog Around Too Big to Fail - Simon Johnson
• The Dumbest Thing I’ve Read Today… - Econgirl