…the Medicare Advantage program was to leverage the efficiencies of managed care to reduce Medicare spending. However, the program has never generated savings relative to traditional Medicare. In fact, the…

…a system where a dedicated tax is supposed to fully fund the program. Traditional Medicare has three parts: Part A is the hospital insurance portion of the program, which is…

…whole society to our children, focusing on these programs to the neglect of the larger social and physical environment is close to absurd. Social Security The Social Security program has…

…only because of the controversy surrounding Romney’s tax returns and offshore bank accounts that I even know about the 2009 IRS amnesty program for Americans who evaded U.S. income taxes…

…takes a crook to catch a crook. 4. Secret programs can be coercion, collusion, or a way to gain market share without the opportunity costs normally associated with new programs….

…the COVID-19 crisis. The government’s Paycheck Protection Program has been under constant scrutiny as reports have shown massive blunders intrinsic to the program with: banks prioritizing loans for long-standing clients, larger…

…the first trading day (Tuesday the 4th) to 0.62% on Friday the 28th. The 3 year rate declined all of one basis point on the 13th then rose 5 on…

…don’t even know what this means (at all). I don’t see the basis for the conviction that high trading volume (liquidity) is socially desirable. I think this confuses the interest…

…among its top trading partners bucks the trend seen in the Philippines. The chart illustrates the contribution to overall export growth from China’s six largest trading partners – again, these…

…proprietary trading so that banks get back to supporting America’s entrepreneurs). The Senate should enact a bill with the Lincoln curbs on derivatives and a ban on proprietary trading for…