The Radford Free Press – Page 462 – All life is problem solving.

Health Care and Rationing

August 18, 2009

This is such a broken record, but as the health care pseudo debate rages I feel it incumbent on me to pass along useful information. I would like to think we were discussing health care but we aren’t. the reason I call the debate ‘pseudo’ is because there has been remarkably little focus on factual […]

Economics / free market theory, health care, innovation, Medicare, profit, profit motive /

Health Care and Market Forces

August 17, 2009

I find myself in conversation sometimes, say over dinner, with people who are both very well informed and highly passionate about the economy and subjects like health care reform, and yet who lack some of the analytical insights that would clarify their views. That’s not their fault of course. They’re way too busy to get […]

Economics / bailouts, consumption, Federal Reserve Board, GDP, interest rates, jobs, Minsky, recession, recovery, stimulus, unemployment /

Monday Morning Blues

August 17, 2009

Originally I thought that today would be a sleepy summer day, perhaps a day off. But Wall Street seems to be roiled and has begun to reverse the steady march it had been on since the early part of the year. I wonder why? Here’s what I see going on. As we all know Wall […]

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