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C'est magnifique, but windmills could spoil the view

• French environmentalists divided over the use of windmills near Mont Saint Michel. Reminds me of this story here in the U.S. All energy sources have their trade-offs.

• Speaking of trade-offs, Coyote blog discusses funding choices in public transportation.

• Scott Lincicome highlights a recent International Trade Commission report on benefits to the U.S. economy if all trade barriers were eliminated. Basically it'd be worth a cool $4.6 billion annually through 2013. But it would also mean taking on a lot of special interests.

• Marginal Revolution and Cafe Hayek take a closer look at the winners of this year's Nobel prize in economics.
  

• Tim Cavanaugh asks why Barney Frank is opposed to affordable housing.