…trust fund in equities was under consideration again, the potential for conflicts of interest is inescapable. The government might be a major shareholder in a corporation it was prosecuting for criminal…

…real value because wages and taxes were designated in that unit, which also made “reals” into units of electronic exchange. (For the former: labor theory of value, anyone? For the…

…With the nominal value unchanged throughout the 1980’s, the real value of the minimum wage was eroded to below $5 by a rising price-level before its nominal value was increased…

…a lending asset, Fair Value Accounting principles require, first, that actual, historical market data on sales of similar assets be used as a benchmark for determining the fair value assets…

…shuffle through the phases: value, surplus value, labor time, abstract domination. The presumed nexus between monetary value and the material commodity is that a certain quantity of labor time was…

…forms of money were just…the value of tallied (balance-sheet) assets, with the value designated, denominated, in a unit of account. In the beginning… By this thinking, an “asset” is a…

…value of real assets. Why? 1. The value of real capital is purely a function of its power to to deliver future consumables (through consumption of inventories and creation of…

…be able to identify strategies to reduce meaningful amounts of low-value care. Low-value care is very difficult to identify with just claims data; the interventions required to reduce low-value care…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…