Uwe E. Reinhardt offers his viewpoint on trends in US health spending.  Following are excerpts from two articles in the NYT’s Economix  concerning the costs of our system and how they are apportioned in the big picture, and the impact on family budgets.  Reading the charts is actually important. There are trends in our health care […]

Usually I describe the employment report as disappointing. But this one was just miserable. Private sector employment only rose 69,000 and the unemployment rate ticked back up from 8.1%to 8.2%. On a positive note, the household survey showed a gain of 422,000 and generally this series tends to lead the payroll data.   But the […]

Trevor Potter offers a thorough treatment (for an article sized piece) of the Citizen’s United decision by the US Supreme Court in a speech at an Annual Meeting of the American Law Institute. The link is to the transcript via Alternet. …coverage is so successful because it accurately describes a campaign finance world that seems too […]