Links for 4-12-14

• Time to rebuild infrastructure - Larry Summers
• Offshore and Underground - Paul Krugman
• Growth is all in how you account for it - FT.com
• Austerity, journalists and the financial sector - mainly macro
• Value of Life: The Singularity Speaks - EconoSpeak
• Why Won't Washington Take on Wall Street's Biggest Crimes? - James Kwak
• The Currency Crisis of 1779 and Today’s European Debt Crisis - Liberty Street
• On forgetting land in models of secular stagnation - Nick Rowe
• Big Bang to Little Swoosh - NYTimes.com
• Health Reform and Affinity Fraud - Paul Krugman
• Is the IRS Unravelling? - Tim Taylor
• The Return of Expansionary Austerity - Paul Krugman
• Keeping Up with the Joneses and Household Debt - John Mondragon
• Congress and the Belief That Human Life Is Priceless - NYTimes.com
• Fiscal policy, "Plan A" and the recovery - Jonathan Portes