Friday Afternoon Linkfest: Required Reading

1. Big Pharma Loving Obama's Healthcare Bill. Big giveaways to drug companies in exchange for their support of the Healthcare bill.

2. Lobbyists Loving Obama's Healthcare bill.

3. Is the FDIC still solvent? Asks Karl Denninger.

4. How Raising Taxes Cannot Get The U.S. Completely Out of Our Budget Hole. From the NYTimes.

5. Public Spending's Day Of Reckoning. The government's profligacy could spell doom for the U.S.

6. Another Reason Australia Is So Awesome. Is the Australia central bank a model for popping bubbles?

7. Reserve Bank of Australia will have to raise the benchmark interest rate.

Happy Reading :)