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Health Care: Rationing and Cost

Of all the silliness being thrown up in the air during our ongoing health care debate three aspects stand out as being the most silly: that a public option introduces ‘unfair’ competition, that any government plan implies the introduction of rationing, and that the idea of extending coverage to everyone is just not affordable. All […]

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More Stimulus … Now!

Having reflected on this week’s ‘not so good’ jobs data I can come to only one conclusion: we need, as a matter of urgency, to push through a second stimulus package. Those of us who thought that the original package was far too small and poorly constructed are on the verge of being vindicated. And […]

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Unemployment: Uglier Than Expected

Considering that most analysts were expecting a figure of around 325,000 jobs lost in June,today’s report that the economy shed 467,000 comes as a nasty shock. What makes it worse is that the losses were spread across all industries so we cannot blame a specific event like the GM bankruptcy. This data shows jobs are […]

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