Links

"Buy Freddie and Fannie and we'll throw in Guam."

• Megan McArdle, Jacob Sullum, Ruth Marcus, Bruce McQuain and Peter Suderman give their reaction to the preliminary CBO score while the Washington Post says its "sunny" forecast includes "big uncertainties."

• Behavioral studies show that markets resulting in people treating each other more fairly while people who like to flaunt their "green" credentials are more likely to cheat you. Coincidentally both studies were conducted at Canadian universities.

• George Will looks at the ongoing failure that is federal involvement in education.

• Don Boudreaux wonders why liberals who pride themselves on concern for the poor and downtrodden don't want American jobs going to the truly destitute in other countries. I've always found it interesting how much many left-wingers have in common with Pat Buchanan.

• Veronique de Rugy says it's time for the federal government to have a garage sale. We've certainly got lots of stuff to unload.

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