Think Tank Quickies (#162)

• If you run a think tank and don't have an economist on the payroll, you're an exception.
• Different think tanks show different views of German-Israel relationship.
• Brookings scholar Martha Derthick, an authority on Social Security, passes away.
• Foreign think tankers spied on by NSA? 
• CSIS Advisor Arnaud de Borchgrave passes away.
• Think tank publishes report on tanks that think.
• Free market think tanks: 2015 website and social media presence.
• Why do Western think tanks draw contradictory conclusions on the Chinese army?
• Brookings poll: President Obama the worst US president?
• North Carolina's GOP legislature axing the UNC poverty think tank founded by John Edwards.