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How to Explain Moral Hazard

…Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation will only ensure that their pensions will be paid “up to certain limits,” no matter how much extra Roger Smith or Michael Eisner or Jack Welch…

Adam Smith in a broader context

…by society is the output of the economy. If everyone is producing as much as they can individually, whether it be teacher, truck driver, artist, investment banker, or Michael moore,…

International Health Care Spending Comparisons

By Spencer Michael Mandel at Businessweek had a post on the subject of where are health care costs rising the fastest. http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2009/09/where_are_healt.htm In the post he posted this table and…

Somewhere Peter G. Peterson is weeping.

…agenda has suddenly become Gramma’s biggest defender. This started first with Sarah Palin’s introduction of ‘death panels’ into the discussion. Her partner in clownery, RNC Head Michael Steele decided to…

Re-tooling the Medicare/medicaid model

…years. Here was her post to the online version of my Op Ed: In April 2008, Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter and I published a case study profiling Commonwealth…

Was it a Gang of Seven?

by Bruce Webb Max Baucus of Montana (pop 935,670- 89.2% white) Kent Conrad of North Dakota (pop 636,677- 90.1% white) Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico (pop 1,928,384- 42.8% white) Michael

Golgotha program update

…can figure them out either – Michael Harrington says Engels later conceded that Lassalle had gotten the Iron Law from the Communist Manifesto. If you’re right that Marx is arguing…