September 14, 2009 1:45PM 

# Monday Links 

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- Obama [spoke on Wall Street today](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/business/15obama.html?hpw) about increasing regulation of the American financial system. But [did deregulation really cause the financial crisis? ](https://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v31n4/cpr31n4-1.html)

- [Burnt rubber](http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/FTBs/FTB-039.html): Obama’s decision to slap a 35 percent tariff on Chinese tires whiffs of senseless protectionism.

- According to the *Economic Freedom in the World* report, the U.S. was ranked the second-freest economy in 2000. [It has fallen to 6th place this year.](https://www.cato.org/pubs/efw/)

- A [bold exit strategy](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10533) for Afghanistan.

- The [economics of health care reform](http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/10/obama-speech-health-care-opinions-contributors-jagadeesh-gokhale.html).

- Why it’s time for the U.S. to [start doing less abroad](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bandow/president-barack-obama-ti_b_279023.html).

- Podcast: China’s economy is [on track to be larger than the U.S. economy in a few years](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=980). Trade expert Dan Griswold says, “So what?”

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