Morning Caffeine 4-18-2012

• Romney’s Lead Economist Urges Policies that will Cause the Next Financial Crisis | The Big Picture

  Good article from Bill Black. When I read Mankiw, it seems I end up less informed. Same with Cowen.

• Regulators to Ease a Rule on Derivatives Dealers – NYTimes.com

• 5 Countries That Do It Better: How Sexual Prudery Makes America a Less Healthy and Happy Place | | AlterNet

• Is Missouri About to Secede, Again? – Andrew Cohen – Politics – The Atlantic

• Chart of the Day: Our Robot Overlords Will Take Over Soon | Mother Jones

  I was at an HTML5 conference last year, and the number of robots/remote applications is exploding. They are going to be everywhere in just a few years.

• interfluidity » Depression is a choice

  Steve knocks it out of the park again. More on this one later today.

  tags: Banking Economics Interfluidity

• Closer Look at the Housing Recovery Meme (in 5 Parts) | The Big Picture

• The Biggest Myth In Monetary Policy Today – Business Insider

• Does Expansionary Monetary Policy Primarily Benefit Finance and Rentiers? | Next New Deal

  the Biggest Myth in Monetary Policy Today.

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