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Surprise: we're not getting all of our money back

• The Economist has a running public debt clock for the entire world. A U.S.-only debt clock is available here.

• President Obama offers up another strawman: opponents of his proposed health care reforms have no solutions of their own. This is getting awfully tiresome.

• Obama is apparently set to propose penalizing those who don't purchase health insurance a minimum of $750 a year and also open to a "sin" soda tax. Apparently you can't pay for big government by only taxing the rich.
  

• The author of Coyote Blog runs the numbers on installing solar power at his house and arrives at a bit of a moral quandary.

• Things we probably already knew: Oversight report finds that U.S. is likely to lose many billions on auto bailout.