Recommended reading

• Randal O'Toole highlights a new paper which found that land use regulations contribute to inequality. So it looks like, in addition to avoiding single motherhood, another element of the fight against income inequality should be deregulation. 

• On a related note, Alex Tabarrok has a good post on income mobility and Steve Landsburg discusses median income numbers. 

• Health care: Michael Tanner looks at who will be paying the piper for Obamacare, Richard Epstein examines the role of the FDA, government rules prevent the provision of free health care (and even free health care advice!) and two capitalists are trying to improve the distribution of blood. Also, are health care professionals overpaid? 

• The Obama administration's former director of the Office of Management and Budget has called for the US Postal Service to be privatized. Equally important, they should also have their monopoly on the provision of first class mail stripped. 

• Russ Roberts and The Economist note problems with Dodd-Frank.