1. The last week has been consumed by a burst of travel, exam grading, and other stuff (I now have a decent website in progress). On Monday, I debated the merits and demerits of Walmart with Stephan Goetz at Wake Forest. A good time was had by all, the questions were fantastic, and we didn't really disagree on too much of substance. Here's a write-up from the WFU student newspaper.

2. Here's some true wisdom from Arnold Kling on TARP; it echoes the discussion of the New Deal we had in Economic History yesterday. HT: Don Boudreaux.