Via Jonathan Turley, a real “it gets better” video:

By Daniel Becker We all know the arguments about the loss of good jobs. Automation, competition, outsourcing. We’ve been told that America was striking out to raise it’s status when it came to jobs. Don’t lament the loss of those blue collar manufacturing jobs to cheap labor. They aren’t worth it. Step up. The new […]

Chris Blattman highlights the latest version of Janet Currie and Reed Walker’s research on a positive externality of the shift to E-Z Pass (PDF link). From the Abstract: We find that reductions in traffic congestion generated by E-ZPass reduced the incidence of prematurity and low birth weight among mothers within 2km of a toll plaza […]

From the Lex column in today’s FT: Tim Geithner’s extraordinary denial that the US is deliberately weakening its currency is a reminder that the [Hong Kong Monetary Authority] should no longer talk blithely of the “unparalleled credibility” of US monetary policy.

by Beverly Manncrossposted note from Annarborist The National Review: Christine O’Donnell Wants the Koran Taught in the Public Schools “O’Donnell stressed that preventing schools from the possibility of teaching intelligent design would violate the First Amendment clause that Congress could not prohibit ‘the free exercise thereof’ of religion. ‘He [Coons] forgot to quote [that] part,” […]

Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: book recommendation Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee I was able to spend some time with Ms. Brownlee recently. She is a scientist turned journalist. I do not agree with everything she says be she is most thought provoking and we […]

Tax Shelter Pleas Still Being Entered–Erwin Mayer by Linda Beale Erwin Mayer is one of the attorneys at the former firm of Jenkins & Gilcrhist.  The law firm, with accounting firms and financial institutions, helped wealthy clients evade tax “through deceit and trickery” (quoting the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York […]

China took the world by surprise on Tuesday by raising bank lending and deposit rates for the first time since 2007. The story is, that restrictive monetary policy (i.e., raising rates) is needed to curb excessive lending, with an eye on mitigating inflation pressures. See this Bloomberg article to the point. While restrictive monetary policy […]

Hat tip Atrios for the link to Bloomberg for another link to add to this chain of title in the Bloomberg news Pacific Investment Management Co., BlackRock Inc. and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are seeking to force Bank of America Corp. to repurchase soured mortgages packaged into $47 billion of bonds by […]

Atlantic Wire has a post based on Matt Taibbi’s book America on sale, Griftopia. There are a number of considerations to be drawn from this deal, but the head spins with possiblities. When visiting my son in Chicago this year he told me of the changes on the practical side…charges from 7 AM to 9 […]