Assorted links

1. Garett Jones and the role of Fannie and Freddie.

2. The Bloomberg best books of the year list.

3. Rogoff comments on the stagnationists, and are we running out of phosphate reserves?

4, MIE: precious friends become precious gems.

5. Christmas video about macro, will offend some of you.  Worth a view in any case!  By John Popola, and it considers Malthus on aggregate demand.

6. Outcompeting the driverless car (does the theory of comparative advantage apply to dogs?), caveat emptor.

7. Cass Sunstein is now on Twitter.