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Health Care Thoughts: Counterproductive Regulations?

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Counterproductive Regulations? Depakote (divalproex sodium) is an anti-seizure medication approved by the FDA to treat epilepsy, migraines. and bipolar mania. Many physicians and long-term care nurses (including my favorite nurse) are absolutely convinced Depakote is effective in mitigating the impacts of agitated dementia. Depakote has also proved useful […]

Populist rehetoric for the election campaign

Via The Dailey Beast is a link to Lehman Brother’s e-mails and documents and an unanswered question for investors and the public With the Occupy protesters resuming battle stations, and Mitt Romney in place as the presumptive Republican nominee, President Obama has begun to fashion his campaign as a crusade for the 99 percent–a fight […]

SEC Disagrees with Supreme Court’s Anti-U.S. Investor Morrison Decision

by Jeff McCord SEC Disagrees with Supreme Court’s Anti-U.S. Investor Morrison Decision and Favors Clearly Defined Private Right of Action against Foreign Wrongdoers, rather than Abolition of U.S. Investors’ Legal Rights, SEC Staff Study Asserts May 9, 2012 The U.S. Solicitor General and the US Securities and Exchange Commission recommended the Supreme Court continue to […]

How Unpatriotic Are U.S. Presidents?

by Mike Kimel In my lifetime, the following Presidents have run for re-election:  Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHW Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, and now, Obama.  What is striking about this list is that of this crowd, only three:  Nixon, Reagan and Clinton appeared to be at all successful by the time they started running for […]

No jobs for college grads

No jobs for college grads.  A report from the Economic Policy Institute shows that recent college graduates who will be eligible to cast their first votes in a presidential election are unable to find jobs. According to the report, unemployment for young college graduates was 10.4% in 2010, and the underemployment rate was 19.8%. For young […]