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 […]
by Dale Coberly Fixable ErrorNew Insightand Social Security(amended version)When errors are honest, and people keep talking in good faith, they are usually fixable. One of the errors I will talk about here is mine. The new insight is entirely the result of the good faith and honesty of Eric Laursen who has written a book […]
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 […]
by Dale Coberly Fixable ErrorNew Insightand Social Security (Rdan…please refer to the amended post of the same title)
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 […]
See “Private Jobs Increase More With Democrats in WhiteHouse,” by Bob Drummond. These facts are finally getting mainstream-media notice. Finally.
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. 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 […]
by David Zetlandreposted with permission from Aguanomics Full cost pricing, the poor, or both?On 19 April in Berlin, I joined a debate in favor of the following proposition: Is cost recovery pricing the best way to ensure the poor have access to good water services? I was seconded by Dr William Muhairwe, Managing Director of […]
by Linda Beale Summers says taxes must increase For once, I find myself agreeing with Larry Summers. At a conference in Washington sponsored by the Brookings Institute, he emphasized that tax cuts and spending cuts cannot appropriately resolve the US budgetary issues. “It is a near certainty that we are going to need a significant […]