Links for 10-16-2013

• Five On The Floor - Paul Krugman
• Microfoundations and Macro Wars - mainly macro
• Gauging the Momentum of the Labor Recovery - FRBSF Economic Letter
• Okun's Law Says We're Growing Well Below Our Potential - Brookings
• Democracy and Extremism - Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
• Minneapolis Fed Wants Lower Disc Rate, Three Banks Want Increase - WSJ
• The Terminator, Statistics, Fair Use and Hedge Funds - Normal Deviate
• Imagining the Dollar Without Its Privilege - NYTimes.com
• Tea party Republicans put dollar's reputation at risk - David Cay Johnston
• A conspiracy theory of the debt ceiling - interfluidity
• Getting the Fed to Explain Itself Better - NYTimes.com
• Unconventional Policy and Central Bank Independence - William Dudley
• America's economy: Meh ceiling? - The Economist
• Tax policy for hard times - vox

• Fama and the Other Fama - Underbelly
• Bob Shiller's Nobel - John Cochrane
• Lars Hansen's Nobel - John Cochrane
• If Fama were Newton, would Shiller be Einstein? - Noah Smith
• Sooo…Does This Mean We’re In a Banksy Bubble? - Jodi Beggs
• The Inefficiency of the Market Isn't an Open Question - John Cassidy
• Sveriges Riksbank prize actually, blah blah blah - Crooked Timber
• The 2013 Nobel Prize to Fama, Hanson, and Shiller - Tim Taylor
• Rationality: The Issue Is Not the Issue - Peter Dorman