Links

• Mark Perry says that the greedy, rapacious health insurance companies have a collective profit margin of 3.3 percent, which places them at #86 among all industries.

• Harvard economist Ed Glaeser attempts to quantify the environmental benefits of high speed rail.

• The Club for Growth has released its 2009 House RePork Card.

• The Washington Post has a story about a Michigan auto parts company that decided to join the much-hyped green economy, and then discovered there isn't much demand for its products.

• Michael Barone offers up a plan for rescuing Michigan's economy.