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Economics / commercial real estate, consumption, deflation, housing starts, inflation, recession, recovery, stimulus, wholesale inflation /

Housing and Prices: Slow, and Slower

August 18, 2009

There isn’t much to discuss in this morning’s release of new home starts: they fell very slightly from June’s annualized rate of 587,000 units a year to 581,000 units a year. No big deal. The more interesting question is whether we can say anything about the longer term based upon this data. Probably. It looks […]

Economics / health care /

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 […]