…states that did not create their own online healthcare exchange the opportunity to cruelly try to manipulate people Boonstra into buying its costliest plan, by implying that that was the…

…in that particular statement that Denniston recounts, Alito comes off as just plain ignorant. He’s conflating the Securities Exchange Act, which regulates publicly traded corporations, with state-law corporate structure. The…

…out for the scammers! IF YOU’RE ENROLLED OFF-EXCHANGE, SEE IF YOU CAN ENROLL ON-EXCHANGE INSTEAD. Somewhere between 2.3 – 3.0 million Americans are still enrolled in OFF-exchange, ACA-compliant individual market…

…has not been accumulating large amounts of long-term US government bonds – contrary to what I expected, given their massive increase in foreign reserves. Together, China and Hong Kong have…

…of production, even though in the “higher stage of socialism” generally labeled “pure communism,” the state is supposed to “wither away.” Capitalism is private ownership of the means of production,…

…MB, stepping in for the huge decline in bank lending, but the banking mechanisms are arcane, including transactions between domestic/foreign banks and their own foreign/domestic subsidiaries. For the excruciating details…

…some combination thereof). By 2008, the US’s net foreign debt will total 50% of GDP (up from about 28% today). These factors will make foreign creditors unwilling to continue loaning…

…rely on their own foreign exchange reserves to meet the demand for dollars as well as respond to exchange rate pressures. Subsequently, fourteen Asian economies formed the Chiang Mai Initiative…

…services directly provided in kind (US soldiers in NATO bases) foreign aid. In fact, 10% while absurd is much lower than numbers for foreign aid from other polls. Simple arithmetic…

Guest post/note makes it to Foreign Policy magazine as a fully written article Don’t bring a praseodymium knife to a gunfight on rare earth metals by Tim Worstall. Now Tim…