Steve offers up more evidence for Wal-Mart's Nobel Peace Prize (he has an earlier post on Wal-Mart and the Nobel Peace Prize here). A good paragraph:

As you have probably seen on TV and elsewhere, in September 2006, Wal-Mart launched its $4 prescription program. Now, 18 months later, it reports that it has saved consumers over $1 billion (yes, billion) as a result of that program. That's $1 billion that poorer consumers have to spend elsewhere on the things they need (or that is reducing insurance costs and premiums), not to mention they can now buy prescriptions they might not have been able to afford before or not have to cut pills in half to save money. Moreover, that program prompted Wal-Mart's competition to create similar programs, the benefits of which can be placed on top of that $1 billion. For some strange reason, the major media didn't cover this story when Wal-Mart's press release went out last Friday.

Wal-Mart also plays a prominent role in Steve's superb Mercatus policy paper on lessons that can be learned from the private sector's response to Hurricane Katrina.