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Health Care and Rationing

I will keep this short in view of the reams we will be using as the debate roils on this year. The American health care system is irrevocably broken. It is horrible. Rotten. And the worst in any industrial country. There I said it. What I mean is that the system is broken down. Not […]

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Stock Market Illiteracy

Sometimes my total disrespect for the stock market leaps to the fore. It is an extraordinarily skittish place and seems to be full of the most short sighted and most easily swayed folks on earth. Analytically? Don’t even go there. Let’s just say that dunderhead isn’t close to the mark. They can’t read too well […]

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GM: Done For

Saturday night’s agreement between a significant group of GM’s creditors, the company, and the US government has sealed the deal: GM will file for bankruptcy, most likely Monday. Thus ends an iconic chapter in American history. GM once was emblematic of American manufacturing prowess. It generated a full 3% of the country’s GDP back in […]

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