Links

• George Will on trickle-down misery in Los Angeles.

• Here's a great takedown of Thomas Friedman's warnings on the emergence of China as a green energy powerhouse.

• Super Economy spends some time correcting leftist economist James Galbraith. He is, by the way, son of the well known economist John Kenneth Galbraith, himself an ardent leftist who wrote in praise of the Soviet Union well into the 1980s.

• ReasonTV has a nice video on the Swedish welfare state.

• The New York Times: With Obama, Regulations are Back in Fashion. So I've noticed -- and when did they ever go out of fashion?

• Don Boudreaux posts another one of his excellent letters. The certainty with which politicians make sweeping pronouncements about that which they have little experience with is astonishing.

• Greg Mankiw spots some Pigovian logic.