Thomas Barnett takes Jeffrey Sachs to task for not understanding the role of business and markets in promoting development in Africa.
FuturePundit examines the financial costs of nuclear power plants.
Carpe Diem's Mark Perry has a great chart looking at farm income.
John Tamny, editor of RealClearMarkets, has little use for a housing bailout from Washington:
Efforts to insulate the property markets from what some deem their sharper edges will enervate the economy first for encouraging all manner of speculation on what would become a "protected" industry and sector. Secondly, protection works at cross purposes with Nanny Washington's other stated goal: rising wages for the alleged "working class." If housing is turned into a certain bet, a great deal of capital will be reoriented toward the ground rather than to entrepreneurs with less innovation and lower wages the certain result.
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