links for 2008-02-24

• 10 percent of Homeowners Upside Down???!!! - Richard Green
• 30-70%? -- Probably Not the Real Rate of Mortgage Fraud - Credit Slips
• A Capitalist Jolt for Charity - New York Times
• Scientists Measure What It Takes to Push a Single Atom - NY Times
• The Value of Newness - David Ignatius - washingtonpost.com
• Why the rich see America’s problems differently - Firedoglake
• Italy - a failed state in global knowledge economy - Rybinski.eu
• Internet & development - towards a Wider World Web? - OECD
• Birds Do It. Bees Do It. Dragons Don’t Need To. - New York Times
• 2008 and 1968 - Robert Reich
• Shleifer the (counter-)revolutionary - Dani Rodrik