Fake Reviewers Get Zero Stars From New York Attorney General

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/09/23/225455596/fake-reviewers-get-zero-stars-from-new-york-attorney-general

I guess it was only a matter of time until some authority found a way to locate fake positive reviews.  The method – undercover agents – is still the old fashioned laborious way.

Explaining the Economic Slowdown, Not Enough Job Destruction

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/09/14/explaining-the-economic-slowdown-not-enough-job-destruction/

There is nothing wrong with a little Darwinism in business.  I do struggle, though, with the belief that a freer market efficiently kills cumbersome, uncreative firms.  Narrowly tailored regulation can point a creative new outfit in the right direction.