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Another Walmart Goodie?

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that a Walmart in Canton Ohio is having a drive to raise food for the needy. How socially aware of them. And so unusual for Walmart, which normally displays a regard for society at the level of Attila the Hun. Except. In this case the food drive is designed to […]

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US Health Care Sucks

But we all know that already. Yet another report has been produced documenting just how dysfunctional the American health care system is. It makes for dismal reading. That the report has been issued during the great Obamacare launch fiasco means, most likely, that its conclusions will be glossed over by both our political parties. They […]

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Yellin and Inequality

What an odd occasion. Janet Yellin’s appearance before the Senate committee responsible for pressing her appointment as head of the Fed was nowhere near the hostile grilling it had been billed to be. By and large it was benign. The oddity stems from the repeated questions about inequality. As in what is the Fed doing […]

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