The Best of the Blogosphere

1) Fundmastery offers up a revealing chart on international gasoline prices.

2) The New Economist points to new research showing that skilled immigration boosts innovation.

3) Greg Mankiw prefers Obama's cap-and-auction plan to McCain's cap-and trade plan.

4) To Larry Kudlow, McCain's climate plan looks a bit like Hillary Clinton's indecipherable healthcare plan:

I don't claim to understand everything about the cap-and-trade mechanism. But scanning the McCain announcement, I look at bullets like banking and borrowing permits; unlimited initial offsets; integrating with international markets; strategic carbon reserves; early allocation of permits; U.N. negotiations; climate-change adaptation plans; implementation at the local level; comprehensive plans for infrastructure ecosystems; resource planning...O my gosh!