Assorted Links (12/14/2009)

Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):

Economics

The Economy

“LIKE our doctor facing a mysterious illness, economists should remain humble and open-minded when considering how best to fix an ailing economy. A growing body of evidence suggests that traditional Keynesian nostrums might not be the best medicine.”

Health Care Reform

  • The ‘Cost Control’ Bill of Goods

“How Peter Orszag and the White House sold a health-care illusion.”

Politics and Public Policy

  • Congress’s Long-Term Care Bomb, by Scott Harrington

“The public is growing wary of the cost of ObamaCare. Yet there is one budget-busting provision that hasn’t received the attention it deserves: a new long-term care entitlement.”

  • The New Socialism, by Charles Krauthammer

“Socialism having failed so spectacularly, the left was adrift until it struck upon a brilliant gambit: metamorphosis from red to green. The cultural elites went straight from the memorial service for socialism to the altar of the environment. The objective is the same: highly centralized power given to the best and the brightest, the new class of experts, managers and technocrats. This time, however, the alleged justification is not abolishing oppression and inequality but saving the planet.”

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