What I've been reading

• Dan Griswold explains why imports are the least of our economic worries. More from Dan Ikenson here.

• A look at the looming disaster that are public sector pension plans.

• Shikha Dalmia and Anthony Randazzo sound the warning on China's experiment with Keynesian-style stimulus spending.

• Steve Chapman on lessons from the salmonella outbreak, in which a government failure is being used to justify more government.

• Warren Meyer says we are witnessing the rise of the corporate state.