I don’t see why the aggregate state funding gap is not numero uno on the ‘risks’ to the US outlook (I usually hear oil, Europe, China, etc., in my line…

by Bruce Webb Well I guess my reputation precedes me at least a little bit. Jed Graham of Investor’s Business Daily has devised a new fix for Social Security and…

…students and the likely ways in which genetic information would be used by private health insurers, not to manage risk better, but to sort on it better, thereby defeating the…

…than Ballard, but I sidebar.) In economic models, as I obliquely ,mentioned last post, there is no risk-free arbitrage: if there were, “the market” would eliminate it, because it would…

…“hedge” those products by shifting the risk of loss off to another bank or financial entity. Odds are their appetites for creating risky would diminish significantly if they bore the…

…housing bubble, and not from hindsight: Housing: Speculation is the Key Posted by CalculatedRisk | 4/04/2005 on Angry Bear Re-posted with permission of the author I have taken to calling…

…taxes and licensing or regulatory fees and after accounting for payments or receipts for risk adjustment, risk corridors, and reinsurance under sections 1341, 1342, and 1343 of the Patient Protection…

…simple model of bubbles. Time is discrete. Agents are risk neutral. There are two assets. One is a risk free asset which pays interest rate r. The risk free asset…

…break contracts, ignore complaints of creditors. Take over, alll the way over. Give me powerrrrrrrr. 1. We can’t allow firms to cherry pick among competing regulators, and shift risk to…

…like that because it makes my stated profits vary and my bonus depends on accounting profits and I don’t like the risk. How can I get around this ? Well…