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November 2009

November 09, 2009

Unintended consequences of health care reform bill

The House passed the Health Care reform bill, but with an anti-abortion amendment that would...

November 03, 2009

Stimulus spent $160,000 for each job

Calculating the number of jobs created for the number of dollars spent for that purpose...

October 2009

October 26, 2009

From minimum wage to maximum wage

The government is now asserting control over how much businesses can pay their executives by...

October 23, 2009

Cost of Living Adjustment

Built into the Social Security system are automatic cost of living adjustments (COLA), which increase...

October 21, 2009

Get rid of all credit cards

Now credit card companies are going to charge you a fee for paying off your...

October 19, 2009

$1.4 trillion in the hole

We now have official numbers for the federal deficit for the last fiscal year: a...

October 16, 2009

Aren’t conservatives allowed to buy football teams?

Carl Cannon on Rush Limbaugh not being allowed to own a part of the St....

October 02, 2009

Do you have “Cadillac” health insurance?

To help fund the proposed health reform measures, lawmakers are thinking about imposing a stiff...

September 2009

September 18, 2009

Devil's Dictionary, revisited

Ambrose Bierce was a late 19th, early 20th century American satirist who penned The Devil's...

August 2009

August 27, 2009

Debt to reach 3/4 of the entire national economy?

The White House itself is predicting a rise in the national debt that is beyond...

August 20, 2009

High deductible, plus money to pay the deductible?

Yesterday's post about Whole Foods C.E.O. John Mackey's ideas for free-enterprise-based health care reform spurred...

August 19, 2009

Free Enterprise Health Care Reforms

Here are some ideas for health care reform from John Mackey, the CEO of Whole...

August 18, 2009

Things are tough all over

The Washington Post on Sunday had a front page, color-photograph, two-full-pages-in-section-A feature about the financial...

August 14, 2009

All you can fly plan

JetBlue Airways is offering an all you can fly pass that is good for a...

August 13, 2009

Controlling health care costs

Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson notes the intrinsic conflict between increasing access to health insurance...

August 12, 2009

230 miles per gallon

GM says that the Volt, its new electric car, will get 230 mpg in city...

August 11, 2009

Churches investing in real estate

The Washington Post published an article on big churches that are getting into the real...

August 05, 2009

The mysterious Marlins

The Florida Marlins have won two World Series in their brief 17-year life span. But...

August 04, 2009

Nissan’s electric car

Next year the Japanese automaker Nissan will come out with the Leaf, an all-electric car...

August 04, 2009

As California goes, so goes the nation

Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson discusses the financial woes of the great state of California,...

August 03, 2009

Demise of the music industry

The New York Times on the woes of the music industry: According to data from...

July 2009

July 31, 2009

Cash for clunkers

If you were planning on buying a new car this weekend, taking advantage of the...

July 30, 2009

The House has a health care bill

House Democrats have reached an agreement on a health care bill, though it won't be...

July 30, 2009

The new business model: Give it away free

Here is an interestingreview of a new book by Wired editor Chris Anderson entitled Free:...

July 29, 2009

Megachurches and big corporations

A New York Times website explores the relationship between big churches and big corporations: Successful...

July 28, 2009

We are getting what we pay for in health care

We are spending more than ever on health care. But we are also getting better...

July 23, 2009

Mandatory health insurance

In the health care debate, lawmakers from every party have apparently reached consensus on at...

July 17, 2009

“Give it to me!”

Are these words of responsibility or socialism or what? From The Associated Press: Obama takes...

July 13, 2009

Do we need another economic stimulus?

As George F. Will describes it, President Bush gave us Stimulus I: $168 billion, when...

July 08, 2009

The Pope calls for a new economic system

The Pope has issued an encyclical entitled Charity in Truth that calls for a new...