Links

New show starts Thursday.

• Social Security has spent the last six months months operating in the red. And I don't think the long-term future is a lot brighter.

• Mark Perry on the imaginary hobgoblin of the unbanked.

• Doug Bandow notes that North Korean border guards have been instructed to shoot those that attempt to flee the country on sight. I believe the previous policy was to capture and send them to ghastly prison camps.

• The Daily Beast has an interview with John Stossel ahead of the launch of his new show this Thursday on FBN. Something to add to the Tivo to-do list.

• Each job currently "created or saved" by the stimulus package has come at a cost of about a quarter-million dollars.