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Healthcare Update

The Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the Senate’s healthcare bill. It is as damning as expected. All you need to know is encapsulated in this one chart from the report: Here’s a clue to the real objective: near the bottom of the chart is a bar indicating the cost to the Federal government […]

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Economics 10Whatever

I have been less vexed about economics recently precisely because I have been focused on other, and more urgent, topics. The politics of our age are wondrously absorbing, if not a little disturbing. In any case I do try to keep an eye on what economists are up to. In that endeavor I came across […]

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Healthcare Hypocrisy Revisited

I have been away for a while. Nothing has changed. Last I wrote was about healthcare, and to welcome me back the Republicans have released their Senate healthcare plan. It is an astonishing piece of class warfare. It is mind-blowingly hypocritical. Its entire purpose is to act as cover for a monstrous tax cut for […]

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