1. The Supreme Court ruling on patenting genes will need to address these issues again.
2. Reputation management backfiring, or don't annoy that kid in college who went on to become a journalist... especially if you are spending an estimated $300,000 on reputation management.
4. The lump of labor fallacy is gaining traction again. Good thing there are companies like Task Rabbit that are developing other ways for less skilled labor to more easily add value. And while there are people whose lifetime earnings will be significantly lower due the recession, if policies don't get worse the main long run permanent labor dislocation from the recent stagnation can be limited to the people who chose to go disability. Even this is relatively small compared to the total population - the change was from 7.1 million people in 2007 to just over 8.8 million today.