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Watch out! We have been tweetered on Health Care

…UAW and ACORN) • Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange. • Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate…

A/l/a/n/ C/a/r/u/b/a/ Milt Shook Explains It All

…private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange. [CarubaShook] This is a phenomenally stupid complaint from a right wing ideological perspective, and it lays…

The ‘Read the Bill’ Movement

…policy components of establishing the benefits package and administering the Exchange, the bulk of the bill is taken up with various tax provisions, important yes but not so much so…

Morici and US trade deficits (China and oil)

…raise the value of the yuan, which would require Beijing to purchase fewer dollars and other currencies to sustain its value. Instead, China has increased its foreign exchange market intervention…

Barter part 1

…because of the strong dollar…which is the exchange currency. In part because production costs are measured in dollars-Are the actual field workers going to lower there salaries? Are those who…

Politically Motivated Biased Censoring

…up. Anyhow, let me excerpt from an exchange I had with this particular gentleman over the weekend. It took place in the comments section of a post I wrote noting…

General Equilibrium theory and Finance

…market outcome is not constrained Pareto efficient. This means that the government can make everyone better off by restricting free market exchange on financial markets forbidding people to make mutually…

Toxic Sludge Inc

…their claims on mortgages in exchange for shares proportional to the most recent market price. The revenue from the mortgages pays them dividends, people can buy and sell shares of…

What is the point of credit default insurance ?

…would siphon up to $50 billion from a fund established in the 1930s to conduct foreign exchange market intervention to backstop the rattled U.S. money market mutual fund industry. This…