Blog Review 513

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Castro resigns and Brad Delong has to man the barricades against the mouth breathers. This is both most droll and quite possibly true on the end of the embargo.

Greg Mankiw, Larry Summers and William Polley all agree: you should read Capitalism and Freedom.

An entirely wondrous and excellent find at The Guardian. Still there as Netsmith goes to press... 

The last bank nationalised for borrowing short and lending long was Continental Illinois. We might not like the results at Northern Rock to judge by that experience. But it is just like Bargain Hunt, isn't it?

Sausages and laws: you might actually prefer the tour of the abbatoir to this description of the legislature. 

A possible step on the way to a hydrogen economy. 

And finally, waiters everywhere are cheering wildly.