The Radford Free Press – Page 193 – All life is problem solving.

Economics / austerity, medicare, plutocracy, Social Security /

Retirement Blues

March 7, 2013

Kudos to Natixis, an asset management business: they have compiled a useful index to measure how retirees fare across the globe. It looks as if the place to be is Norway. Those folks rank top. The US lags way back, just ahead of the UK. The index tries to capture a holistic view of the […]

Economics / austerity, CoreLogic, home prices, ISM Index /

Better News

March 5, 2013

Yes. Aside from the distraction of the sequester lunacy there is an actual economy to concern us. Today’s reports are decent, so they are worth mentioning. According to CoreLogic, a research firm, home prices rose 0.7% in January bringing the gain over the past year to 9.7%. That’s the fastest one year rate of growth […]

Economics / austerity, debt ceiling, government spending, Obama, Republicans, Simpson-Bowles /

Sequester – Now What?

March 4, 2013

If you’re like me and think that the economy neither needs, nor can stomach, government spending cuts reading the media frenzy over the sequester has a distinctly surrealistic air. What on earth are we to make of the entire episode? Instead of substantial analysis all we seem to get from the media is a stream […]

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