Paul Krugman draws parallels between Paul Ryan and George Osborne on his New York Times blog.

Simon Wren-Lewis of the Mainly Macro blog discusses fiscal stimulus by printing money (and provides another entry for economists on the same topic here).

Chris Dillow of the Stumbling and Mumbling blog looks at the labour productivity puzzle; the rise in hours worked combined with a fall in GDP in the last year.

Labour List looks across the pond to see if any lessons in oratory can be learned from Obama and Clinton ahead of Miliband’s speech at the Labour Party conference.

With Kate Middleton’s exposing photographs made public, Steven Baxter of New Statesmen condemns gross invasions of privacy.

Photo Credits: Helicopter – George M. Groutas (CC-BY) via Flickr; Fifty Pound note – The Laird of Oldham (CC-BY) via Flickr;  Barack Obama – Steve Jurvetson (CC-BY) via Flickr; Ed Miliband – By Ed Miliband for Leader (Mandate for Change) (CC-BY) via Wikimedia Commons