Health insurance costs on the rise in the US

Read the complete Kaiser Family Foundation report here, or the article in the NYTimes here.

Whose baby is Solyndra?

The GOP is more responsible than it’ll admit, writes Dana Milbank from The Washington Post.

The Financial Crisis and the Well-Being of Americans

The Great Recession was associated with large changes in income, wealth, and unemployment, changes that affected many lives. Since January 2008, the Gallup Organization has been collecting daily data on 1,000 Americans each day, with a range of self-reported well-being (SWB) questions. Angus Deaton uses these data to examine how the recession affected the emotional and evaluative lives of the population, as well as of subgroups within it. Read the abstract or read the complete NBER report here.

Why Is the U.S. Losing the Green Race?

The world will need 50 percent more energy by 2035. To compete in the world economy and generate manufacturing jobs in the coming decades, the United States needs to both nurture a green economy and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Read the complete article on the New America Foundation website here.

America's economy: An uncertain outlook for Main Street, USA

Putting struggling small businesses back to work has been placed at the heart of the quest for growth - and for a president under pressure, the political stakes are as high as the economic ones, writes Financial Times correspondent Hal Weitzman in a long article.

Game theory in practice

Computing: Software that models human behaviour can make forecasts, outfox rivals and transform negotiations. Read the complete article in The Economist here.

How to Really Save the Economy?

Read Robert Barro's (Harvard and Hoover Institution) answer in The New York Times here.

Read Krugman's answer here.