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Economics, Politics / capitalism, democracy, Democrats, health care, plutocracy, Republicans /

Healthcare Abyss

July 18, 2017

What are we to make of a major political party that is prepared to cast tens of millions of voters into the abyss? Really? What are we to make of a major political party that had no response to its own signature battle cry? “Repeal Obamacare!” Then what? Nothing, that’s what. What are we to […]

Politics / capitalism, democracy, health care, Medicaid, plutocracy, Republicans /

Healthcare Update

June 27, 2017

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 […]

Economics / Diane Coyle, economic theory /

Economics 10Whatever

June 27, 2017

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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