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Some important things to look for, now that the "mother of all budget deals" is in prospect.
Related: the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget concludes, "Too Many Gimmicks, Too Few Reforms". Veronique de Rugy: "The Budget Deal Has No Pretense of Fiscal Responsibility Whatsoever".
Vincent DeVita, former director of the National Cancer Institute and the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Medicine, and Elizabeth DeVita Raeburn, decry our current drug regulations.
Related: "The Economic Proof That The FDA's Drug Regulation Makes Us All Poorer".
"While reams of articles, studies and analysis have been devoted to those reforms, I bet you haven’t heard a word about another tax cut that has already saved North Carolina’s economy roughly half a billion dollars, and will cut taxes by an estimated $700 million per year during the next four years."
UPDATE: Link fixed now. Thanks, Michael.
The Browser, where I got this from, writes, "Whatever you think this will be like, it isn’t: man meets God on the 8.20 train from Paddington . . . Unexcerptable, indescribable: just read it."
The author, Harry Stottle, also has a fine post about Wikipedia.
More on "megacommuting" here: "Sure, it's a massive time suck, but think of the savings!"
But I expect that, as usual, firmly establishing causality will be a bitch.
I don't know about "most," but the author makes a good point.
Ironman at Political Calculations updates his list of resources for "debunking bad science in the media."
Experts: "More GOP and Democratic insiders think Donald Trump is 'the one'". (But see Ross Douhat, "Marco Rubio, the Unusual Front-Runner".)
The market: "Betting Markets Call Marco Rubio Front-Runner in G.O.P.".
We'll see.