links for 2008-01-02

• Closer to the True Rent-to-Price Ratio for Housing - Richard Green
• The cost of living - Dean Baker
• Another Year, Another Crappy Comic Strip - Sadly, No!
• Satirical take on Tom Friedman  - Richard Florida
• The Fair Tax (pdf) -  Bruce Bartlett
• 'House Lust' Hits Home - Robert J. Samuelson
• Not Constantinople - Twenty-Cent Paradigms
• Global Warming Insurance Policy Is Worth Premium - Gene Sperling
• Insects' 'giant leap' - EurekAlert
• Democrats: More Than Health Care - New York Times
• What America Must Do: Kenneth Rogoff - Foreign Policy
• Leading leftwing interpreter of 50 years of capitalism - FT.com
• Insurance status linked to cancer outcomes - EurekAlert