Interesting Picks

Calculated Risk's weekly summary and look ahead.

I have often wondered why they don't build them like that anymore.

US consumer spending chart-fest from Big Picture.

I honestly had not seen the recent Econbrowser post as a public choice theory of the IMF:)

Yet more Greenspan bashing.

DeLong touches on a micro-macro link that has often made me ponder.

David Beckworth explains why the market's expectation of inflation (as gauged by the difference between the benchmark and TIPS) is falling.

I have wanted to look at the relationship between Turkish consumer sentiment and spending for a long time, but I'll just have to live with the US version for now. But just remember not to get carried by the idea of self-fulfilling expectations too much.

Another is the relationship between capacity utilization and unemployment, but the US version will again have to suffice for now.

The Week in Pictures, thanks to Econompicdata.

One explanation of how Germany surpassed the rest of the Euro Area in terms of competitiveness. And Tyler Cowen grabs the vital part of the article, at least in my humble opinion.