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Health Care – Quick Note

I won’t be adding much for a day or two, but I want to point you all to a damning report. Damning, that is, of the state of American’s health. When compared with a large group of other advanced industrialized nations the US performs really badly. Appallingly might be a more apt term. It ranks […]

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Platinum Solution

You’ve all heard about it. And yes, it’s true. It is not a joke. The Treasury Department is fully authorized to mint platinum coins. And yes it could do so to avoid any fracas over the debt ceiling. All it has to do is mint a coin or coins and then deposit them at the […]

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Cartoon Economics

I haven’t commented on the state of economics lately largely because there’s been no change. It remains a mess. Moreover it remains a mess few people seem keen to clean up. Pet theories abound. Old ones are trotted out anew. Academic bricks are tossed over walls into rival camps. But no one fixes much of […]

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