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Economics / entrepreneurs, health care, insurance costs, small business /

Health Care and Small Business

August 5, 2009

There are two linked issues when we talk of small business and health care. One is that the cost of providing health care as a ‘benefit’ to employees often prohibits a small business owner from so doing. Indeed the horror stories of what happens when an employee in a small business actually makes a large […]

Economics / banking, bankruptcy, Lehman /

What’s Good For Counter Parties Is …

August 5, 2009

Not good for anyone else. The winding up of the ill-fated Lehman operations has run afoul of counter-party greed. More to the point it has run afoul of the hopeless inability of the dumb lawyers and bankers who constructed the apparently never ending Russian doll like constructions in which they hid those toxic assets to […]

Economics / consumption, home prices, mortgage applications, recession, recovery, savings, unemployment /

Double Dip Recession?

August 5, 2009

I realize that this is a lower than 50/50 probability, but the data this week has me thinking that, unless something ‘turns up’ we could be in for a nasty surprise sometime next spring. We may get a couple more quarters of contraction. And as we all now know two quarters of GDP contraction is […]

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