What I've been reading

• Social Security is going to pay out more than it takes in this year.

• Why is the government promoting home loans that only require $1000 down?

• Lawyers are being outsourced to India. Awesome.

• Tad DeHaven on the two Republican parties.

• Mark Perry has a bunch of links worth checking out, especially on health care.

• A comparison of the economic fortunes of Cuba and Portugal over time.

• Keith Hennessey contrasts the economic approaches of the Obama and Clinton administrations. They are quite different, and it is interesting to see liberals laud both of them.

• Why sanctions against North Korea don't make sense. This is an argument I have made before.