and are taking it out on each other or illegals. According to the Pew Research Center,
a survey taken this summer found that fewer people perceived there are strong conflicts between blacks and whites than saw strong conflicts between immigrants and the native born, or between rich people and poor people.
However, I submit that [...]
The average premium for family health coverage through an employer was $13,375 in 2009, of which covered workers paid an average of $3,515. Since 1999, family premiums for employer-sponsored insurance have increased 131 percent, while wages have gone up 38 percent and inflation has gone up 28 percent
- Kaiser Family Foundation
Using the Kaiser Family Foundation’s [...]
While surfing the ‘net, I came across this video. It would be funny, if it weren’t so true.
The first rule of a blog is to write about what people are interested in reading. So, in complying with that rule, here is more financial information that I suspect most people – and most certainly not this old bird – did not know about.
While reading Jennifer Taub’s abstract Enablers of Exuberance: Legal Acts [...]
This morning while scanning the NY Times for news and interesting, little known information, I discovered an abstract by Jennifer Taub of the University of Mass. at Amherst. In Enablers of Exuberance: Legal Acts and Omissions that Facilitated the Global Financial Crisis, Ms Taub argues that the financial market crash of 2008 is the [...]
After reading the Senate Finance Committee Health Care Plan this morning, I decided to write my Congress people to state my views. Here is the letter I wrote.
As soon as the Washington Post published the Finance Committee health care reform plan, I downloaded the pdf and read it. Unfortunately, I was not overwhelmed or [...]
When I grew up, rudeness was considered extremely bad manners and no amount of apologies allowed that person off the hook for behaving badly. Only reformed behavior allowed the culprit to assuage his ruined reputation.
That no longer seems to be the case today. Someone who behaves badly can say “I’m sorry” [...]
While puttering around, working to ensure my blog is included in Google rankings/analytics, I saw a comment that needs to be reposted.
i found this reassuring as a conservative
Bradford Berenson, Conservative, Member of Federalist Society, Harvard Law, class of ‘91; associate White House counsel, under George W. Bush 2001-’03:
Question:
Some of the people who are not as [...]
Ms. Carlson’s latest editorial on the Bloomberg site is both thought-provoking and amusing. She has a remarkable way of causing the reader to think seriously about an issue while at the same time laugh.
Today’s editorial focuses on health care and at least one missing component of the debate: the cost of obesity [...]
