I knew a man who raked them over;
He’s still blogwatching…

Asymmetrical Information: “We are finally starting to get a hazy idea about which poverty programmes solve more problems than they create. Given the huge questions about its effectiveness, and its obvious inferiority to programmes such as the EITC, it’s hard to understand why raising the minimum wage is even in the standard liberal policymaker’s toolbelt.” (more)

Eavesdrop DC: Things you hear people say on the street…. Via the Club for Growth.

An Iraqi blog roundup from Al-Jazeera. Via Oxblog.

And: “Odd though it may sound, somewhere in Baghdad a man is working in secrecy to edit new Arabic versions of Liberalism, by the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, and In Defense of Global Capitalism, by the Swedish economist Johan Norberg. He is doing this at some risk of kidnap, beating, and death, because he hopes that a new Arabic-language Web site, called LampofLiberty.org — MisbahAlHurriyya.org in Arabic — can change the world by publishing liberal classics.” (more) (via Hit & Run)