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Economics / existing home sales, home prices, real estate, recession, recovery /

Housing Dips Again

March 23, 2010

Amidst all the hullabaloo over health care reform the economy chugs along largely unchanged from when we last saw it. Today’s news that sales of existing homes dropped again, for the third straight month, should cause us to reflect on just how fragile our incipient recovery remains. The February data shows sales at an annual […]

Economics / banking, financial system reform, health care costs, health care reform, Reagan, unemployment /

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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