Assorted links

1. Private equity and jobs, setting the record straight.

2. Honduras shrugged.

3. Further notes on the new European agreement, if indeed that is what it is, and good comments here, and good tweet in Spanish.

4. The Economist picks best books of the year 2011, including TGS.

5. A professional NHL hockey player speaks to the issue of hockey helmets and collective action problems.  Good, thoughtful piece, deeper than a lot of economic treatments of the same issue.

6. "our jet packs are here…"