Geithner’s Baa Humbug to Job’s and Labor (h/t Run75441) “Ebenezer: Since you ask me what I wish sir, that is my answer. I help to support the establishments I have named; those who are badly off must go there.” Daniel Gross at Slate interviews Tim Geithner here: “We Will Be Judged on How We Dealt […]

Back on July 28th I posted on what I considered to be the most important provision of the original House Tri-Committee Health Care Bill in Sec 116: Golden Bullet or Smoking Gun Smoking Gun referred to the belief by Republicans that this bill was designed to ultimately transition to Single Payer, and Golden Bullet to […]

…and it’s a world of dread and fear. May it stay outside your window next year and beyond.

I received a copy of the book Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar… by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein today as a gift. I haven’t read through the book in awhile. I found the ‘Tale of the tailor’ to be instructive as well as amusing given the topics we have been discussing concerning […]

Per the Health at a Glance Chart Set, Powerpoint, available here: All OECD countries have achieved universal or near-universal health care coverage, except Turkey, Mexico and the United States And it’s even more impressive when you go to Slide 36 (whose header is quoted above) and realise that the Public Coverage in those three states […]

(hat tip reader Lyle)

by Linda Beale(cross posted from ataxingmatter) Economic Theory–how much is it worth[hat tip–Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism] Michael Hudson, an economist at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, asks how the economic discipline became so “trivialized from its classical flowering””taking for granted the social structures and dynamics that should be the substance and focal point of […]

LOL…prodded into being by a kind note from MG.

by cactus Rubinomics Bleg I’ve read in a few places that the term “Rubinomics” was coined by Kevin Phillips. Anyone know the original cite? Thanks. Cactus