Links for 10-19-2013

• Heritage: Same As It Ever Was - Paul Krugman
• Game-Changing Investments for the U.S. - Laura Tyson
• Economic uncertainty and the effectiveness of monetary policy - vox
• Lean, Clean, and In-Between- Jeremy Stein
• The China-Debt Syndrome - Paul Krugman
• Why Was the Housing-Price Collapse So Painful? - macroblog
• Tarullo Says Big Bank Failures Still an Issue - WSJ
• Fed’s Evans: Bad Idea to Use Monetary Policy to Burst Bubbles - WSJ
• Bad Government Software - Baseline Scenario
• The Gap Between Schooling and Education - NYTimes.com
• The US wants a fair society, not 'defund Obamacare' crazy - Mark Weisbrot
• The latest from the Oregon Medicaid Experiment - The Incidental Economist
• Historical Echoes: Passbooks and Hand Grenades - Liberty Street Economics
• EZ crisis and historical trilemmas - vox
• OMG! - Uneasy Money
• Polarization - Dan Little