links for 2007-06-20 Kevin Hassett: Psychotic Creep: A Neoconservative Hit Piece on the Federal Reserve: "Why Did the Fed Help North Korea Launder Money?" Matt Taibbi on the peculiar genius of Thomas Friedman The Moustache of Understanding Cloud: General [Taguba] Says Prison Inquiry Led to His Forced Retirement John Quiggin: The euro and the dollar Martin Wolf: Unfettered finance is fast reshaping the global economy Glenn Greenwald: Richard Cohen's brilliant (and unintentional) exposé of our media Google Public Policy Blog Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World: Stupid or lying? Ezra Klein: Obama promised to radically change our politics, Edwards promised to radically change our policies. Those were the choices offered to the conference this morning, and they were good ones.