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Health Care: Get Rid Of Employer Coverage

July 31, 2009

One last fling at the end of a busy week: I want to draw your attention to an excellent op-ed in today’s Financial Times arguing against the way in which most American consumers get their health care insurance. In brief, here’s the argument: The provision of health care by an employer puts a financial strain […]

Economics / Economics, health care /

Health Care: Where’s The Competition?

July 31, 2009

The chaotic nature of our legislative process demands that we all ignore the day-to-day political infighting and wait to see what emerges as the various sides take turns in slamming each other. But among the side issues is the ongoing emergence of the depth to which some people have no clue about the economy or […]

Economics / china, consumption, exports, GDP, health care, Japan, recovery, savings, stimulus, unemployment /

GDP: Good News

July 31, 2009

Everyone – well almost everyone – predicted that the second quarter GDP figures would show an improvement over the miserable performance of the last six months. That much was not hard to do, after all businesses will eventually run out of stuff to cut, slash, burn or otherwise eliminate. Once we reach that point even […]

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