●  Philip Booth advocates a more rational and limited framework of financial regulation

●  Robert Carling examines the frightening implications of the record US budget deficit (pdf)

●  Tim Congdon discusses the Bank of England’s policy on interest rates and QE on CNBC (video)

●  JP Floru argues it’s time to privatise the Royal Mail

●  Charles K. Rowley warns of Obama’s “long march” to the social market economy

●  The 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics is analysed by Paul Aligica, Peter Boettke, Don Boudreaux and David R. Henderson