Links

Stimulus money: thanks but no thanks.

• Mark Perry has a series of excellent (check the comments discussion featuring Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute) graphs on Washington DC public school spending.

• Greg Mankiw points out what unions are getting from the Obama Administration.

• Health care: Michael Cannon explains why President Obama's Nixonian attempt at controlling health insurance premium costs via government fiat is sure to end badly, while Tom Maguire says everything Obama thinks he knew about health care cost control is wrong.

• Nick Gillespie looks at the impact of Congress' attempt to get tough with the credit card industry. The law of unintended consequences strikes again. (Update: more here from Mark Perry)
  

• Dan Mitchell highlights a city which actually turned down stimulus package funds because both the administrative costs as well as payoffs to unions (Davis-Bacon, buy American provisions) make it cheaper to simply build infrastructure themselves.