Links

• University of Pennsylvania professor Thomas Sugrue details how government efforts at promoting home ownership screwed up the housing industry.

• The Boston Globe says the Obama Administration plan to use stimulus money to create tens of thousands of federally subsidized rental units.

• The incoming head of the Canadian Medical Association says the country's health care system is imploding.

• Research from the conservative American Enterprise Institute says that once you adjust life expectancy statistics for non-health related fatal injuries that the U.S. emerges in first place.

• A USAToday/Gallup poll finds that 57 percent of Americans think the stimulus package is having no impact on the economy or making it worse.