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    Health Care Reform: Finance Next?

    March 22, 2010

    There is not much I can possibly add to the outpouring of analysis and pseudo-analysis in the media this morning. So I will restrict myself to a few comments: It is about time. For the richest country on earth to consign so many of its people to ill health or bankruptcy because it wants to […]

    Economics / deficits, federal deficits, health care, health care costs, health care reform /

    Health Care Reform: A Budget Bargain?

    March 18, 2010

    I pity the poor folks at the Congressional Budget Office. They are constantly being thrown into politically sensitive situations, and then expected to retain impartiality. From what I know of them they try very hard to maintain their non-partisan status. So their involvement in the health care reform debate must be testing their neutrality to […]

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    Bank Reform: Contingency Planning

    March 18, 2010

    A couple of days ago I gave the thumbs down to the Dodd bank reform proposal, but in the past couple of days it has become clear I wasn’t sufficiently open about why. One reason: bank behavior is not our only problem. Bank size is too. Maybe one way to get at why this is […]

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