The Daily Link (6/23/09)

Nate Silver, over at FiveThirtyEight.com, models the correlation between PAC dollars received by U.S. senators by private insurance companies, and the degree of support for a public health insurance option.

Jonathan Chait of the New Republic outlines "the Obama method."

Ezra Klein makes the case that the Obama administration is better off not directly taking control of the healthcare debate...at least not yet. He also links to his January 2008 essay detailing the lessons learned from the 1994 healthcare debacle.

Economists Barry Eichengreen and Kevin H. O'Rourke compare the trajectory of the current recession to that of the Great Depression of the 1930s, offering this revealing chart: