Recommended reading

• Good news: poverty rates in Sub-Saharan Africa may be falling faster than previously thought.

• Healthcare/Obamacare updates here, here and here. It's all fantastic, of course.

• Tad DeHaven says that spending cuts may actually be good for politicians. This is perhaps the only good argument against spending cuts I have found.

• Peter Suderman highlights one of the stranger moments in yesterday's presidential press conference.

• The John Lennon you never knew.