Wednesday exposition

GE pays no taxes in the US – NY Times. None. In fact, it gets tax credits.

Zadie Smith campaigns to stop her local library from closure – Guardian.

Incredibly high car theft rates in 1920 – Microkhan. A big complication in identifying a stolen car was that there were only a few body styles at the time, so they all looked the same.

The Austerity Delusion – Paul Krugman. I forgot to post this earlier, but it's a good companion piece on the economics I was talking about on Sunday.

New series of Mad Men delayed until 2012 – Times.

Via io9, clever robots take yet another job:

Now how will all those unemployed pong players put food on the table?