Lots of stuff to get through:
- George Will says that companies are choking on Obamacare.
- A very interesting article describes how bananas are brought from Latin America to the shelves of your local grocery store, where they can then be purchased for around 20 cents a pop. Just another everyday miracle of capitalism.
- What the US can learn from Canada: budget cutting, eliminating government agencies and promoting free trade.
- Dear left, corporatism is your fault.
- Think unions are good for workers? Think again.
- Remember kids, regulation encouraged people to load up on sovereign debt from the very European countries that are now in crisis.
- Scott Sumner has a must-read post on unemployment insurance (note the parts about France and Denmark) and here's a good companion read on labor market reform in Germany.
- Meet the 57,000 page tax return.
- Arnold Kling nails it on political incentives. It cannot bear repeating enough: politics is a sick, twisted process with a horrible incentive structure (anyone who doubts should just watch the race for the Republican nomination). The amount of our lives that should be dictated by politics should be kept to an absolute minimum.
- David Bernstein and John Goodman both take a look at the history of progressivism. Not pretty.
- Energy: Charles K. Ebinger, a self-described Democrat and scholar at the Brookings Institution says his party is out to lunch on energy policy (a term I despise as there shouldn't be an energy policy), the Oregon state government plumbs new depths of economic stupidity, and former Microsoft chief strategist Nathan Myhrvold explains why government subsidies for green energy make little sense.
Many of these links were originally found at Hit and Run, Carpe Diem and Taxing Tennessee -- all consistently excellent reads.
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