Catching up on a week's worth of reading. Here are some highlights:
- Jeff Jacoby points out another example of the free market being a friend of the consumer.
- The Obama Administration attempts to kill a television ad critical of its stance on school choice here in DC.
- Intrade odds on the public option have fallen to 7 percent.
- Mark Perry outlines some real health care reform: interstate competition!
- A former Fannie Mae official outlines how government regulation contributed to the housing boom and bust. More on the government role here.
- Robert Samuelson on the public option mirage.
- A White House economist says the stimulus has already had its greatest impact.
- The freakonomics blog has a global warming quiz that is highly recommended.
- John Stossel says that in order to save the planet you should eat your dog. Or at least kill it.
- Stossel also notes fraud problems with government home buying programs, with even four year olds qualified as home buyers. But I'm sure health care will be completely different.
- The Free Exchange blog notes four decades of declining poverty. Give thanks to capitalism.
- Stimulus money going to companies under investigation for criminal activity.
- Amtrak loses $32 per passenger.
- Reason highlights crappy government websites.
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