Stimulus

Here are two recent articles about stimulus:

Monetary stimulus

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/business/economy/at-a-fed-conference-views-differ-sharply-on-stimuluss-effect.html?src=rechp 

Fiscal stimulus

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/too-little-gone-too-soon/?_r=0 

Hint for the question in the previous post

Here is a hint to help those trying to answer the question in the previous post:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/tutorials/fredgraph/customtransformations/

FRED & Real Interest Rates

Paul Krugman uses FRED in the New York Times: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/54-years-of-real-interest-rates/?_r=0

Can you replicate the graph?