Today's news and interesting studies

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2009/10/obama-to-slash-exec-pay-at-bailout-firms.html

The executive pay measures set very dangerous precedents with regard to contracts

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204422.html?hpid=topnews

The executive pay cuts are driving executives away in droves

 

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/10/fox-and-white-house

The white house's treatment of Fox News is inappropriate

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703573604574493541233653908.html

shadiness in Argentina: why small government is good!

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703573604574493541233653908.html

Giving debtors power at the IMF seems dangerous.

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704335904574495682178142104.html

congress is unbelievably self-interested. This should never even have been an issue.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/health/policy/25view.html

How mandates can hurt people. As a side note, he also doesn't mention that Western Europe's mandates work in part because of US subsidy of the world's medical R+D.

 

 

 

 

 

and not in the news, but interesting:

 

http://bakadesuyo.com/bob-sutton-85-years-of-research-tells-us-the

how to tell if an employee will be good

 

http://chrisblattman.com/2009/10/24/the-coin-toss-not-50-50-after-all/

coin flips aren't actually fair

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/business/19drill.html?_r=1

Experts are more convincing when they're tentative; novices are more convincing when they're certain.