Most governors are refusing to set up medical exchanges.Thank you , thank you , thank you.

 Understandably it's not a compelling topic today against the back drop of the Connecticut killings but maybe we'll look back on this period  as when we made the first step towards single payer.

etc.

Samuel Brittain , yesterday's FT

" I have a table of the behavior of the main......economies since their pre-recession peak of 07-08. Canada heads the list with a net gain of real GDP of 4.1% The US comes next with 2.2% followed by Germany with 1.7.

France is still  0.8% behind its earlier peak, Japan is 1.9% short..........

These are ....historical records, not forecasts. The discrepancies are too large to be explained by demography. The US must be doing something right......"

I must have missed the WSJ's coverage.

The Gallup tracking polls on which I've been wasting good space here aren't worth the effort. IMHO successive reports appear to show important changes which are purely the result of Gallup's methodology

Consider Obama's rating in  the  polls issued on               

             10/21                                 10/23                 and       10/26

Today's Gallup  tracking poll has Obama back up to a 47% approval rating. That compares with recent history as follows

Gallup’s " likely voter" reports