Bernanke not coming back

The End of China Bashing: Toward a Serious Discussion of the Trade Deficit by Dean Baker

Paul Krugman and Ezra Klein both say, following Joe Gagnon, that the time for criticizing China for "currency manipulation" has passed. This is partly true in the sense that China's currency has risen substantially in real terms against the dollar over the last few years. However this does not mean either that the relative value of the dollar and the yuan is now at a sustainable level or that China is not continuing as a matter of policy to prop up the dollar against its currency. 

Thoma and DeLong seem to agree with Krugman and Klein. Is this a reaction to Romney's China bashing during the debates as the Presidential race tightens?

You can't blame them in that this election is very important.

Who will be the next Fed Chair (Applebaum piece) or Treasury Secretary (Sorkin piece) According to Sorkin: "If Mitt Romney wins the presidency, he has already pledged he will replace Mr. Bernanke, whose term as chairman ends in January 2014, in just over 15 months. However, Mr. Bernanke has told close friends that even if Mr. Obama wins, he probably will not stand for re-election."

Or Supreme Court judge?

minutes later, however, it became clear that while the court had rejected an expansive view of the Constitution’s commerce clause (which the administration had argued gave Congress the power to make people buy health insurance), it had in fact upheld the health care law on grounds that the individual mandate fell under Congress’s broad power to levy taxes.