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Fixing the fixing. Health care Deja vu

…Blendon at the Harvard School of Public Health, some 48% of Americans say they personally have experienced problems with HMOs’ care, or have close friends or relatives who have run…

Drum Debates Drum

…which seems to have been conciously designed to prevent actual regulation ? That would be by the repeal of Glass Steagal. The problem isn’t that the barriers between say financial…

Yglesias Wants to Soak the Rich

…? I think the problem with 95% tax rates is not that they reduce incentives to work. I mean after the first 30 million or so, I don’t think that…

WAPO on AIG

…play out. AIG would be on the hook if something went wrong down the road, not Sosin and his team, who took their pay immediately. Could that cause problems ?…

Former CENTCOM Commander on Iraq: May 2004

…and the issues out there and maybe give them a perception of the problems and issues from the eyes of those that live with it day-to-day, the Arabs, Israelis, all…

Back at you on GM argument

…If there’s a problem, its with the rest of the government’s ability to pay those IOUs back once Social Security stops running a surplus. The problem is only being exacerbated…

Champaign Bottle corks are popping today

…to maintain the flow of credit, especially to mortgages. But wasn’t that what the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bailout was supposed to assure us? There are four fundamental problems with our…