Barry Ritholtz points us to how essential US government intervention was for the banking system and in particular existing banks and the management at The Big Picture. It has links…

…a remarkable fashion. Plenty of links and thoughtful commentary. And of course passions run high and are expressed. Well done and my thanks to the readers. The economic questions are…

…www.house.gov* gives two dead links johnboehner.house.gov/ and johnboehner.house.gov/contact give pages with just “Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)” Huh ? Was the site hacked ? Did he shut it off ? is…

by Mike Kimel Revisiting the Cactus Theory of Development Tyler Cowen links to this paper by this paper by Allen, Murphy and Schneider (warning, PDF!!). Cowen notes: It is a…

…the GUY WHO WILL TELL US HARD TRUTHS! Journalists apparently understand that calling an underwear model shot “a penis” will get more links, which is their sole purpose in life,…

…This was written on the fly in less than five minutes, including finding the old links, so I haven’t thought any of it through, but… what am I missing here?…

…or art & music, or field trips, still others have cut over a month off the school year…so im going to try to tell this larger story with links to…

…appropriate, while David Beckworth and others (links at Beckworth’s site) are more sympathetic to the impact on the Periphery. They highlight that relative price fluctuations could facilitate the much-needed redistribution…

Mark Thoma links us to Rewriting the Macroeconomists’ Playbook in the Wake of the Crisis by Oliver Blanchard of the IMF. In comments are names we all recognize….

Lifted from an e-mail in reaction to two links here and here I sent to Beverly Mann concerning Judge Clarence Thomas. (e-mail slightly revised for clarity) by Beverly Mann Clarence…