Recommended reading

• Why some companies aren't hiring: a view of the economy from 30,000 feet.

• Warren Meyer asks where all of the small businesses have gone.

• Will Republicans lead the way on sentencing reform? Things certainly have to change.

• David Boaz highlights an interesting link between free trade and tolerance. 

• It's been a bad week for health care bureaucrats. Megan McArdle takes a more in-depth look at some of these failures here and here.