Too logical… ====== Media outlets lately have emphasized the challenge of enticing healthy young adults to sign up for ObamaCare, “exactly the type of person insurance plans, states and the federal government are counting on to make health reform work,” as the L.A. Times put it. These pieces are useful as far as they go, but miss a key point that Supreme... Read more
Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category
Joe Biden’s Free-Trade Epiphany
June 10 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, The LeftNot George’s fault? ======= Vice President Joe Biden returned from his trip to Latin America last month a convert to free-trade and an enthusiast for the peace that former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe brought to his country. Or so said the veep in an op-ed he penned for this newspaper last week. If Mr. Biden now sees the connection between prosperity and free... Read more
5 Signs Stocks Will Collapse in 2013?
June 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, EconomicsFor what its worth… ========== “After putting $803,436 in Obama’s re-election campaign, a media giant attempted to keep Americans from seeing the video by banning it from their sites,” stated Aaron DeHoog, the financial publisher who is unapologetic for the release of controversial footage that has gained international attention. The video DeHoog is referring to is a stunning interview with famed economist Robert... Read more
Econ 201: Trust and the “experts”
March 18 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, EconomicsA very good basic Econ 210 course – in 15 minutes.. =============== Would the Real Peter and Paul Please Stand Up? By Dylan Grice In a previous life as a London-based ‘global strategist’ (I was never sure what that was) I was known as someone who was worried by QE and more generally, about the willingness of our central bankers to play games with... Read more
Obama’s ‘Denial’ Problem
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, ObamaCareAmazing. ====== President Obama said a fair bit during the fiscal-cliff negotiations—speaking for 45 minutes in one 50-minute meeting, for example—but today let’s zero in on the claim he kept repeating: “We don’t have a spending problem. We have a health-care problem.” For our money—and yours—those are two of the most remarkable sentences our Orator in Chief has ever strung together. Not so... Read more
Soak the Rich! (What rich?)
December 3 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, EconomicsThe Gov obviously miscounted something… ======== A funny thing often happens on the way to soaking the rich: They don’t stick around for the bath. Take Britain, where Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs service reports that the number of taxpayers declaring £1 million a year in income fell by more than 60% in fiscal 2010-2011 from the year before. That was the year that... Read more
