US Doctors Give Up Private Practice & NOT Due to Obamacare


A quiet revolution is transforming how medical care is delivered in this country, and it has very little to do with the sweeping health care legislation President Obama just signed into law.

But it could have a big impact on that law’s chances for success.

Germany Forces Joint Euro / IMF Solution to Greek Debt Crisis


After months of fractious debate, the 16 countries that use the euro agreed on a financial safety net for Greece,

combining bilateral loans from those European nations with cash from the International Monetary Fund.

After months of fractious debate, the 16 countries that use the euro agreed on a financial safety net for Greece,

US Households Facing Foreclosure Rose in 4th Quarter


The ranks of those facing foreclosure swelled by a quarter-million households in the fourth quarter, new government data shows.

Households that are at least 90 days delinquent on their mortgage payment now number at least 1.6 million, according to a report Thursday issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision …[br]

Obama Housing Plan: New & Different or Same Old, Same Old ???


Despite the fact that it was the lead story on the NYTimes website all day Friday, and then followed on Saturday by a “News Analysis” calling it “Bold”,

Obamacare Proponents Claim It Lowers Income IN-Equality – IF ONLY ;-)


Generally, David Leonhardt, Economics Correspondent, tries to be analytical and unsparing in his columns.

Generally, David Leonhardt, Economics Correspondent, tries to be analytical and unsparing in his columns.

But in this Economic Scene piece that has gotten a lot of play on the Times’ website – In Health Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth InequalityI think there’s a lot of wishful thinking.

Confused NYTimes Asks READERS To Guide Them Thru Obamacare


Obamacare bill so complex, NON-tranparent, NYTimes ASKING READERS a) what provisions will go into effect right away & b) what provisions THEY think worth noting ;

Indian Inflation


On March 19, 2010, the Reserve Bank of India raised its benchmark reverse repurchase rate to 3.5% percent, after this rate touched record lows of 3.25%. The repurchase rate was raised to 5% from 4.75% as well, in an attempt to curb Indian inflation.[br]
 

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Obamacare Winners: Big Pharma / Hospitals / MDs / Insurance Companies … The People: Who Knows ?


By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com

By David Caploe PhD, Chief Political Economist, EconomyWatch.com

America continues to be a sad sad place, with a lot of great people and qualities that are nevertheless increasingly overcome by the very worst elements of a society that doesn’t see itself as such but, rather, as a random collection of individuals somehow thrown together.

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Three Sensible Articles About China via Jim Fallows


While I don’t like everything that Jim Fallows does, he is one of the rare people – not just Westerners – who really seems to have a grasp of the complexity that is today’s China. [br]

NYTimes’ Bob Herbert on Economic Catastrophe for Individual US States


Along with Frank Rich and Paul Krugman – who, despite our occasional disagreements, we still think is the best economics columnist in the mainstream US media, bar none –