Monday's Daily Brief

Monday, August 15, 2011 Ron Paul Shapes 2012 GOP Race POLITICS Bob McDonnell To Replace Rick Perry As RGA Chairman TECHNOLOGY Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility WORLD P.M. Pledges Reverse In UK's 'Slow-Motion Moral Collapse' WORLD Report: Pakistan Gave China Access To Downed Bin Laden-Raid Helicopter CELEBRITY Jessica Alba Welcomes Daughter Haven Garner BLOG POSTS Jared Bernstein: Big Ideas and the Concentration of Wealth Why did we economists squander the opportunity for a new paradigm of thought? Not because there's so much information on the web. It is, at least in part, because the concentration of wealth and power blocked the new ideas from a fair hearing. Steve Clemons: Iowa Straw Poll Takes a Dive No one in the top 5 of the Ames Straw Poll has any real chance of leading a 2012 GOP ticket. Iowa is making itself irrelevant in the hard political choice department. Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.: How to Sneak Healthier Foods Into Your Diet What if there was an easy way to consume more veggies and lose weight, even if you didn't like the taste of veggies? Robert Reich: Why the New Healthcare Law Should Have Been Based on Medicare (And What Democrats Should Have Learned By Now) What should Obama and the Democrats do if the individual mandate in the new health care law gets struck down by the Supreme Court? Immediately propose what they should have proposed right from the start -- universal health care based on Medicare for all. Gemma Godfrey: Europe: Lacking a Long-Term Solution Over the last few days we have seen a tremendous amount of volatility in the markets, epitomizing the lack of clarity with which many investors have struggled.

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