Links for 12-24-2013

• Beware the New Normal - NYTimes.com
• Reason for Optimism? - Econbrowser
• Noah smackdown watch: Minneapolis shakeup edition - Noahpinion
• "Dark Money" Funds Climate Change Denial Effort - Scientific American
• Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality - NBER
• Ben Bernanke's tenure at the Fed wasn't net positive - Dean Baker
• Prosperity and Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean - vox
• Policymaking in crises: Pick your poison - vox
• Noah smackdown watch: Bayesian updating edition - Noahpinion
• The Fragility of an MMF-Intermediated Financial System - Liberty Street
• JPMorgan Doesn’t Want to Talk About Bernie Madoff - David Cay Johnston
• District Court Rebukes IRS Church Plan Rulings - David Cay Johnston
• ECO 348, The Great Recession, Preliminary Readings - Paul Krugman
• Long run, medium run, and short run Fisher curves - Nick Rowe
• Labor Markets in the Global Financial Crisis - FRBSF Economic Letter
• Aaugh rather than Arragh: Windows Piracy - Digitopoly
• Goodwill to Man - macroblog