Lambert Strether and Bob Goodwinn via Naked Capitalism offer a point of view on how law is being implemented through large system programming, as it played out in the MERS system of property ownership fait accompli, and other systems.

One party’s perspective of Healthcare. Hat Tip to Hullabaloo Answer the question, what is the alternative to the PPACA??? Neither the Republicans, the Healthcare Industry, or Healthcare Insurance has come forth with a solution.

Robert Schiller began a look at executive compensation: Last Wednesday, we presented our findings, “The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System” (Princeton University Press). Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of theFederal Reserve, helped introduce the book at a conference at Columbia University. He said he agreed with the principle that “the stakeholders in financial firms — including […]

Skeptical Science offers a nice, concise history of climate science: Two Centuries of Climate Science: part one – Fourier to Arrhenius, 1820-1930 Two Centuries of Climate Science: part two – Hulburt to Keeling, 1931- 1965 Two Centuries of Climate Science: part three – Manabe to the present day, 1966-2012 (h/t reader Jan)

Senator Elizabeth Warren says it well: Transcript is found at Floor Speech by Senator Elizabeth Warren The Retirement Crisis November 18, 2013 As Prepared for Delivery.

by Dale Coberly PERNICIOUS IGNORANCE ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY A REPLY TO KRASTING Bruce Krasting in comments to Bruce’s post on Social Security made a number of claims that deserve a fuller answer than I was able to give in comments.  Below in quotes are Krasting’s claims followed by my replies.  I hope I am reasonably […]

After 10 days scurrying around the Shanghai, China area; I am now sitting in Bangkok, Thailand and reading more of the news. Such is the life of a Global Purchasing Manager dealing with automotive and industrial. I have been reading and watching the typical media reporting about the PPACA while drinking my green tea. Greg […]

Lifted from reader rjs newletter: Wage Statistics Show The Rich Get Richer Again in 2012 Harsher cuts are on their way “Mommy, take us home and we will never ask for food again NYC Food Bank Head: 40% Of Veterans Need Food Assistance  Too Much Of Too Little Synopsis below the fold:

The Grey Matter Blog does a nice little bar chart on insurance profitability; “Socialist” Obamacare a boon to insurance companies” since the passage of the PPACA in 2010. I gotta say this is nothing like what I would have expected to happen; but, I have to acknowledge my other blogger-foil’s told-you-so remarks to me repeatedly. […]

Today, the House of Representatives will take up GOP Rep. Fred Upton’s proposal to ”fix” Obamacare by undermining it, and the vote is being widely cast on a referendum on whether Dems will continue distancing themselves from the law. Meanwhile Senate Dems are also still considering fixes of their own that could undermine it, though […]