The Boss: Granger Cobb of Emeritus Senior Living, on His Career

This column originally appeared in the Sunday business section. Also, I'm off today for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Regularly blogging resumes tomorrow.

Here is the "Black Friday" question of the day from Martin Lewis at the Telegraph: Is it time to ban Christmas presents? Is it time to ban Christmas presents? Across the country people are growling at the enforced obligation to waste money on that they can't afford, for people who won't use it. Festive gift-giving has lost its point, risks doing more harm than good, misteaches our children about values and kills the joy of anticipation of what should be a joyous time.

From a classic 2001 article by Milton Friedman, "How to Cure Health Care":

An Australian court ruling has quoted at length from internal emails sent between brass at Young & Rubicam over the hiring of Reed Collins from Leo Burnett to become national creative director at The Campaign Palace, a unit of Y&R in Australia.

(Ben A Cobb Photo)

In a perfect world, you love your job and your boss. But often times it’s one or the other.

Dylan Matthews is writing Wonkbook while Ezra is in China. Some congressional Democrats are opposing key spending bills that they say would drive the country deeper in debt. Meanwhile, Barney Frank is pushing for the financial reform conference committee to be televised on C-SPAN; would public opinion toughen the bill even further? And all evidence suggests the EPA was unprepared for an oil spill of the scale of the BP incident. It's Monday. Welcome to Wonkbook. Top Stories