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The must reads from around the web and in today’s papers:
- Fierce 7.0 earthquake devastates the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince [NYTimes]
- Haiti’s earthquake was “long overdue.” [New Scientists]
- Help (and hear) Haiti. [MoJo]
- How Pat Buchanan helped President Nixon become more Nixonian. [Mother Jones]
- The end of the Clinton machine? [Politico]
- Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Wall Street’s moral bankruptcy. [Mother Jones]
- Goldman email message lays bare trading conflicts. [NYTimes]
- SEC confidentiality ruling will keep AIG bailout shrouded in mystery until Nov. 2018. [Reuters]
- The unofficial list of experts/pundits who were wrong on the housing bubble. [Economics of Contempt]
- Health insurers secretly funded attack ads while claiming to “strongly support reform.” [MoJo]
- Don’t be evil: Google is reconsidering its Chinese operations. [WSJ]
- Thomas Friedman asks “Is China the next Enron?” [NYTimes Op-Ed]
- 24m Bachelors: China’s marriage problem. [Lexington’s Notebook]
- Please explain: Climate change will decimate agriculture, yet Big Ag is stepping up campaign against climate regulations. [MoJo]
- DON’T say the magic word: Republicans and Independents approve of a carbon tax (as long as it isn’t called a “tax”). [Blue Marble]
- Cash-strapped North Korea opens up to US tourists. [Reuter]
- Economists’ bad idea of the day: Failure insurance for college drop-outs. [MoJo]
- Muzak exits bankruptcy [DealBook] | …unfortunately. [More Intelligent Life]
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