Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately (organized by topic):
Economics
Hearing Problems at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with I
Source: www.thebigquestions.com
“During a belated conversation about health care policy, a colleague remarked that “of course, nobody would want to live in a world where rich people and poor people got the same kind of health care”. The economists around the table all nodded in agreement and moved on to matters that were actually controversial. It occurs to me that had there been a few non-economists at the table, someone might have objected to my colleague’s matter-of-fact (and surely accurate) observation. And it occurs to me also that maybe there’s a general lesson here about how economists communicate-or fail to communicate-with the world at large.”
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Health Care Reform |
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Source: www.theatlantic.com “The head of the IRS seems to be confirming what we suspected: the agency is going to enforce the mandate by deducting any penalties from your tax refund, not by using its other enforcement authorities such as the ability to file tax liens.” |
- James A. Klein: The White House and the Writedowns – WSJ.com
Source: online.wsj.com
“In The Wall Street Journal, James A. Klein of the American Benefits Council points out that the White House wants companies to ignore known costs and book speculative future savings. Sounds like Enron accounting.”
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Source: online.wsj.com “The Wall Street Journal describes What happens when all medical decisions are political.” Politics
Public Policy
Source: online.wsj.com “The Wall Street Journal writes that a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to regulate how Internet service providers manage their networks is a validation of the rule of law.”
Source: online.wsj.com “Holman Jenkins writes in The Wall Street Journal that a federal court says no to an FCC power-grab.”
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Source: online.wsj.com
“The Wall Street Journal writes that the Labor Department is making it illegal to work for free.”