Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):
Economics and the Financial Crisis
- Taxes, Depression, and Our Current Troubles, by Art Laffer
Wall Street Journal: “Tariffs, rising state and federal taxes, and currency devaluation ruined the 1930s, and they could do the same today.”
Foreign Policy
- Summits of Folly, by Bret Stephens
Wall Street Journal : “Mr. Obama bankrupts his country while appeasing his foe.”
Wall Street Journal : “Why is the president hesitating on more troops to fight his ‘war of necessity’?”
Game Theory
- Game theory and pricing cell phone minutes, by Presh Talwalkar
Miscellaneous
- Three Cheers for Irving, by David Brooks
New York Times : “The 24 recipients of the “genius awards” include a poet, a scientist, a journalist, a mixed-media artist and others.”
- For MacArthur Grants, Another Set of ‘Geniuses’, by Felicia R. Lee
New York Times : “Irving Kristol thrust himself into every ideologically charged battle of his age, but he was able to pick a side without losing his clarity.”
Statistics
- Counting the Tea Party Protesters, by Carl Bialik
- Heading Home: Getting to First Base, by Doug Glanville
New York Times: “In professional baseball, the leadoff hitter has a relentless job, with expectations to get on base by any means necessary and to wreak havoc on opponents when possible.”