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GMAC Flashback

…quote myself from the Dark Ages (March 2007) at Tom’s Place: The next time GM explains that its pensioners need to take a hit, it won’t be because car sales…

AIG in WAPO II

…geniuses, because they have been very successful or who have something to prove. In particular, I think the replacement of Tom Savage by Joseph Cassano may have been very costly…

Should People be allowed to buy candy with food stamps

Robert Waldmann In the Washington Post Jane Black has an interesting article on an interesting policy proposal — Agsec Tom Vilsack is opening a discussion of whether federal nutrition programs…

Good Summary, with Expanded Notes

…on Flex Cars when you’re using a useful source for ethanol, instead of corn. (See Tom’s multiple postings on the subject, both here and at MU.) And about those workers…

Everything Old is New Again

…step will save thousands of jobs without costing the Treasury anything.” I believe in the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy (not the Tom Noonan version), and the Reagan Revolution, too….

Physician Foundation Report 11/18/08

by Tom (STR) Physician Foundation Report 11/18/08 The Physicians’ Foundation was founded in 2003 with settlement funds from a major lawsuit against Aetna (long story). Physicians Foundations The PF issued…

Health Care goes electronic

by rdan Health Care Think Tank points to a note on President-elect Obama’s website concerning electronic record keeping for medical records. The new guy Tom (STR) offers no comment himself….

New blog from Save the Rustbelt

rdan Save the Rustbelt has started his own blog finally. He is writing under the alias name of Tom at Health Care Think Tank. I encouraged him to still write…