links for 2010-02-04 Trevon D. Logan and Manisha Shah: Information and illegal market mechanisms Corey Pain: Born Poor? Sam Bowles Says You Better Get Used to It Steven Pearlstein: The Amazon-Macmillan book saga heralds publishing's progress Adam Serwer: Richard Cohen Begs for Fascism Ezra Klein: Rep. Paul Ryan: 'Rationing happens today! The question is who will do it?' Yves Smith: Fed Disqualifies Itself as Systemic Risk Regulator Kevin Warsh: Focus on ways for banks to fail safely Chris Sims: Commentary on Policy at the Zero Lower Bound Rolando Avendano and Javier Santiso: Are sovereign wealth fund investments politically biased? Barry Ritholtz: Causation Analysis: What “But Fors” Caused the Crisis? Harold Meyerson: A jobs lesson from the New Dealers David Dayen: Democratic Question Time Pre-Planned, Self-Censored Bruce Bartlett: The Real Importance of Steve Cohen and Brad DeLong's New Book
