The trucks won't load themselves edition 7.20.11

I'm headed to work.  Here are a bunch of links I've had open and been meaning to post/comment on but haven't had the chance...

Interest Rates for Beginners

Paul Krugman: Get Them From The Greeks

Paul Krugman: CFPB Sadness

America’s inefficient health-care system: another look

A Bad Economy Could Harm House Republicans

Business Insider: IT'S OFFICIAL: The Whole World Thinks Republicans Are Dangerous Maniacs Threatening Everyone

The FCIC Investigation, Wallison on the GSEs and the Conservative Echo Chamber

America’s Revolution: Economic disaster, development, and equality

Paul Krugman: Sticky Note

G.O.P.’s No-Tax Stance Is Outside Political Mainstream

“What I mean is that I have Marx in my bones and you have him in your mouth”

The dangers of being wrong on Keynes

The Economist: The Republicans are playing a cynical political game with hugely high economic stakes

Bruce Caldwell - Why Economics Needs the History of Thought

File under this is wrong/somewhat wrong:

Obama says domestic spending headed to lowest level since Eisenhower

Fiscal FactCheck Does Washington have a spending problem or an income problem? 

Now I can close my browser....