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Kash Mansori will be writing again for Angry Bear

Kash Mansori will be writing again for Angry Bear. He has his own site The Streetlight, which carries several new posts. When he entered the private sector in 2006 he stopped writing for blogs. Kash wrote well written and data driven posts on international finance and macro economic topics, and some humorous as well. Welcome […]

Health Care thoughts: Policy Confusion

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care: Policy Confusion The Obama administrative, and especially the Department of Health and Human Services, is pushing the notion of accountable care organizations (ACOs) and similar innovative integration strategies to improve the cost-benefit ratio of health care services. This is integral to PPACA (“Obamacare.”) ACOs and other integrated provider […]

Hot TIPS tips !

Many people are afraid that US inflation is about to accelerate. I think they are totally irrational, but the point is that they can be useful too. Most people in the USA don’t know about Treasury Inflation Protected Securities with payments indexed to the CPI. The inflation chicken littles would be delighted to invest in […]

Inflation verses relative price changes

It is starting to look like the cyclical bottom in inflation may be at hand. But there is much confusion over current price changes. There are two types of price changes to consider. One is the change in relative prices. The other is the change in the overall price level, or inflation. Currently we are […]

Social Security and Pie!

Why? Just because. Plus Dean was warning about some sort of housing bubble at the time. How nutty was that? Plus my best buddy just starting out on his pie: WaPO: WHAT CRISIS?: It Ain’t Broke, So No Need To Fix ItSunday, January 23, 2005; Page B02 By Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker, The latest […]