On the blogs

Don’t Bet on a Stronger Dollar -- Barry Eichengreen on why the US boom is not very strong and predictions of a stronger dollar might be bunk

The Invisible Hand of Alan Blinder -- John Komlos takes Blinder to task for his review of Jeff Madrick's book Seven Bad Ideas

‘New Keynesian’ haiku economics -- Lars Syll, partly influence by a NK post I think, reflects on the limits of New Keynesian macroeconomics

Fed shouldn't raise interest rates too quickly -- Steve Pressman and Rob Scott on... well the title gives it away. The point is household income has not grown sufficiently even if unemployment is down

Is Canada becoming a right-wing country? -- LP Rochon on the Canadian turn to the right, or not