Today's economic reading

Mark Cuban has offered on his blog to fund small companies seeking help getting started. Out of almost 2,000 applications, he is pursuing 4. I guess there is a certain element of luck in becoming a billionaire, but Mark is clearly no dummy. His blog consistently provides excellent insight into how a really rich, really smart guy chooses to spend his time and money; he will never have enough of the former, and his grand kids' grand kids won't be able to spend all of the latter.

Walter Williams is an economist and columnist. He writes here about the fallacies of President Obama's economic recovery plan. Mr. Obama has admirably avoided Jesse Jackson-esque race card plays, but nonetheless it wouldn't work here. Mr. Williams is African American.

Victor Davis Hanson is a military historian, professor at Stanford, author, and columnist. He asserts here that things aren't as bad as they seem. "In relative terms, it is no longer 2005, but that does not mean it is 1932 either."