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A man whose time has come?

• It turns out Cash for Clunkers wasn't just dumb economic policy, it also wasn't particularly beneficial for the environment either.

• Smart diplomacy: more signs of a brewing trade war between the U.S. and China. This is just so unnecessary.

• Kelo update: the government tears down a residential neighborhood to make room for businesses such as Pfizer, all in the name of the public interest. Now Pfizer says they are leaving town.

• Harvard economist Ed Glaeser on the various problems with the home buyer's tax credit.

• First came the era of Keynes, then Friedman, and now Amity Shlaes says coming years will be that of Hayek. And I don't mean Salma.