The trucks won't load themselves 11.29.2010 morning links

I'm headed to work here are your mornings links/weekend/turkey digesting recap...

 

quote for the day:

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.  --Douglas Adams

 

 The recent improvement in economic news http://goo.gl/f8Lfz
David Brooks is Upset that the Politicians Are Listening to Voters

UN condemns killing of aid worker in Mindanao http://goo.gl/fb/qohPE

Reagan Budget Director: GOP Has Abandoned Fiscal Responsibility By Adopting ‘Theology’ Of Tax Cuts

Former Republican Sen. Warns GOP May ‘Have Gone So Far Overboard That We Are Beyond Redemption’

CBO: Recovery Act Raised GDP And Lowered Unemployment But Effects Are ‘Expected To Wane’

One Size Doesn't Fit ...

Increasing taxes

More on the Damaging Implications of Corporate Cash-Hoarding

Greece → Ireland → Portugal → Spain → Italy → UK → ?

Tax Hikes, Status Competitiveness, and Social Stratification

Asian Stocks, Commodities Gain on Ireland Aid; Dollar Near Two-Month High - Bloomberg http://goo.gl/kOjui

NFL Players' Union Leader Says Lockout `Near Certainty' for Next Season

 Animation: Why is health care reform so difficult

E Pluribus Unum and Our Finest Hour

Unemployment extensions end soon

Ireland Wins $113 Billion Aid; Germany Drops Threat on Bonds - Bloomberg http://goo.gl/pxYIz

Marcus Aurelius http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcus-aurelius/

Lacking All Conviction

Analysis: Wikileaks - Not damaging, vindicating http://goo.gl/CETb6

Winning the Class War -  http://goo.gl/nKu6g

Experts question whether patients will use performance data use performance data to choose their care Analysis http://bit.ly/i9Pkbz

Quantitative easing the renminbi and China http://bit.ly/fyaztn

"Starve the Beast" a crackpot theory http://bit.ly/eVbyog

Should the Fed be stripped of its employment mandate? Or stripped of power? http://bit.ly/elsZQk

Town may seize factory from owner http://bit.ly/hAzEBx

The two biggest lies of George W. Bush http://bit.ly/ercfn5

What the Republicans really want http://bit.ly/eZydrH

We need more health care reform http://bit.ly/fbDonw

Economics and Economic Justice (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) http://goo.gl/WP98g

Market Failure Cannot Be Resolved Without Regulation | Angry Bear http://goo.gl/mDu2J

Paul Ryan, Arpit Gupta on Monetary Policy « Rortybomb http://goo.gl/XKvZn