Haiti links

I've been traveling, so posting has been lighter than expected.

Nonetheless, Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution (a must-read!) has had some brilliant and original thinking on the path forward on Haiti, including:

-- thoughts on how to help Haiti,

-- the role that Haiti will play in American policy and its consequences for the Obama presidency,

-- an early call to grant temporary protected status to Haitians in the U.S.,

-- a bold statement about the severity of this crisis on Haiti's geopolitical future,

-- thoughts on why Haiti is so poor, and

-- an eerie and poignant comment hours before the earthquake, on what was shaping up to be a very good year, relatively, for Haiti's economy.

Among aid organizations, Partners in Health stands out -- Paul Farmer has been working in Haiti for two decades.