Assorted Links (4 Jan 2010)

1/ Washington Post - A Lost Decade for the US Economy - a set of ten charts covering the performance of the US economy over the last ten years. The U.S. economy has expanded at a healthy clip for most of the last 70 years, but by a wide range of measures, it stagnated in the first decade of the new millennium.

2/ New Zealand Herald - How to Sex Up Economics - an interview with the Undercover Economist Tim Harford. “Economics is an entirely appropriate discipline for studying things like relationships, military engagement or racial discrimination.”

3/ Sunday Times - This decade will tip the economy to the east - David Smith on changing economic power - “The big picture is that the world economy is recovering. That recovery is, however, heavily skewed towards emerging economies such as China, India and Brazil”

4/ Sunday Telegraph - Developing nations emerge from shadows as sun sets on the West - Liam Halligan