Links the past couple of days

I have been spending most of time working on my Self-Consolidating Concrete Independent Study so I have not been able to post what I am reading, so here is a sample from the past couple days:

• Greece's Debt Lessons (New York is headed down the same path)

• Did FDR End the Depression?

• The Jobs Picture Still Looks Bleak (I read this just for its rosy optimism)

• Fewer Students, More Teachers

• How Free Were American Women in the Gilded Age?

• Only a brave few acknowledge an entitlement crisis

• Incentives Not to Work

• Reaganism, New Jersey Style
  

• Women, Liberty, and the Gilded Age: A Reply to My Critics

• Postcard from the Gilded Age

• Why smoking should be regulated, but not by the government.

Finally I must acknowledge a video that I was introduced to by one of the bloggers I follow (I apologize, I cannot remember who). It is a Youtube video on the IRS by a student at William and Mary. Now I am not going to comment on her arguments about the tax system; I am going to save that for a later blog. However I will admit if she taught Economics or anything for that matter at my college I would gladly attend every class and ask for extra help on every homework regardless of whether I needed it or not. I wonder if anyone can figure out why: