- Updates on China's high-speed rail system from the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. Safety concerns, reduced speeds, budget cuts and "almost empty" trains -- welcome to our bright, shiny future!
- Budget: John Tamny says that if Paul Ryan is Ronald Reagan, we're all in trouble. John Stossel writes in praise of a competing plan from the Republican Study Committee, which has also won the endorsement of the Cato Institute's Dan Mitchell. Warren Meyer, meanwhile, offers up 10 principles that should guide the budget debate.
- I was going to respond to this Joe Stiglitz piece on income inequality, but then Will Wilkinson and Russ Roberts beat me to it.
- Tino Sanandaji has written a new piece on immigration in a Swedish publication that he thinks will land him in a fair amount of trouble.
- Damon Root profiles efforts by some Republicans in Florida to rein in occupational licensing abuse, which is also the subject of a front page story in today's Wall Street Journal. Actual excerpt: "By deregulating, [licensed designer Michelle Earley] told lawmakers, 'what you're basically doing is contributing to 88,000 deaths every year.'" It really doesn't matter what aspect of government people are trying to cut -- be it Medicare, welfare or licensing -- the inevitable response will be hysteria and doom-mongering.
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