Links

Thank the government.

• Mark Perry has interesting posts on health insurance companies' profit margins, taxi cartels in Ireland and taxes.

• So the federal government decided to help out airline passengers by fining airlines whose flights are delayed more than three hours on the runway by $27,500 per passenger. The result? More canceled flights.

• Taxing Tennessee notes that one of the UK's "debt-ridden" government-run hospitals is being taken over by a private company.

• Scott Grannis looks at what he calls the untold story behind today's unemployment. I posted a comment here.

• Jerry Taylor declares President Obama's proposed loan guarantees for nuclear power to be radioactive corporate welfare.