Eurozone Solutions: The Incredibly Annoying Mark Weisbrot at the CEPR

Habits are easy to fall into. When you’re trying to change how you do things and you’re incredibly busy, falling back into old habits happens quicker than you would expect. While most tend to be minor habits that don’t have an overall impact, there are some habits that can be damaging, make you look lazy, or seriously hinder a page’s growth.

By Bill Black, the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One and an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Cross posed from New Economic Perspectives

Madhusudan Rao submits: It comes as no surprise to me that Warren Buffett sent a Thank You note on November 16th to Uncle Sam. Unfortunately, his “Thank You” note seems to indicate that Uncle Sam actually bailed out the American Economy and not Warren Buffett’s investments. Mr. Buffett suggests that a lack of intervention would have brought the whole US Economy to a standstill. Sure, a lot of companies would have suffered and many Americans would have lost jobs.

Cuban economic performance under 50 years of Communist dictatorship has been unimpressive as even Fidel Castro seems prepared to admit. This leads Daniel Mitchell to post the following chart which he deems “a good illustration of the human cost of excessive government.”

Kid Dynamite submits: A lot of people are going to be talking about this Warren Buffett NY Times Op-ed. Buffett writes a cutesie "Dear Uncle Sam," thank you note, commending the government for its great work managing the financial crisis. The challenge was huge, and many people thought you were not up to it.