…average American worker and those in many other countries, who, partly under the pressure from globalisation, has seen his income fully adjusted for inflation, including the lowering of prices that…

…some controversy here, such as: employer plans setting and enforcing blood pressure and cholesterol standards punishing smokers (less controversial perhaps) – is this punishing addicts? there are many age and…

…pressure brought to bear; however, student loans have the official distinction of being cast in stone by Congress once a student signs his name. With only death, disability, or a…

…healthy food options, walking and biking infrastructure projects, or increasing access to blood pressure screenings at the dentist’s office. One way that dentists can contribute to the Prevention and Public…

…intense pressure from their sales and executive (what’s the difference?) teams. Is it any wonder that lending standards plummeted? I’ve heard it said that incentives (and institutions) matter. So where…

…that there is pressure to keep labor costs controlled in each country to maintain their competitiveness. So, by looking at the second equation above, if real hourly compensation falls and…

…1,300 people with high cholesterol, 1,600 people with high blood pressure and 2,600 patients diagnosed as obese. Treating these conditions early could avoid heart attacks, amputations, or other expensive hospital…

…pressure. Notice above that this same dynamic happened after the 2001 recession. Real wages stagnated. And the recovery was very slow, especially for labor. Inflation needs unit labor costs to…

…other room and takes my blood pressure and put me on hold again, if I’m lucky after 20 minutes the doctor comes.spend 5 minutes with me and prescribes a lot…

…to be maintained and probably even increased over time. At some point in time, the pressure to stop the injections would mount, the injections would decrease and the economy not…