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Medicare Bleg

…a half lotta dough or a quarter lotta dough but in any case a less horrible looking shortfall and less pressure for cuts in medicare benefits. Am I confused ?…

A different sort of crowding out

…futures contracts. Buy enough GM puts and watch the price begin to fall under the pressure. Obvious, but plays havoc with the investing side of the tax cut and savings…

Decimate or Alienate

…if their feelings are hurt. Hence her personally stated opinion that leftist pressure is a bad idea because “the intraparty rift runs the risk of alienating centrist Democrats who will…

Medicare re-admissions…one scenario

…often pressure the physician to readmit. Sometimes the patient demands readmission, it is easy for the physician to say yes. This can also be tough on the nursing home, where…

Context for trade deficit

…companies seem to be in a rather weak position to finance debt with earnings. …” Such a profit collapse and not too effective policies would, I think, increase pressure to…

Watch What I Do…..

…MNEs that shielded their foreign income as much as they could and held it abroad until they could get this repatriation measure passed through their intensive lobbying pressure. And the…

Changing fresh water patterns

…Africa, the Ganges in South Asia and the Yellow River in China — were dryer. “Reduced run-off is increasing the pressure on freshwater resources in much of the world, especially…