online.wsj.com - 12/21/2008
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The world ran out of trust in 2008 -- but there is no shortage of money because the Fed is printing like mad. It's the wrong approach, with potentially dire consequences, says James Grant.
Socialized Medicine In The US Could Cost Me My life
westernfrontamerica.com 12/8/2008 — Socialized medicine may seem like a good thing to you; unless you are sick, even less so if you are chronically ill. We have been warning of the dangers, and the short comings, of socialized medicine for a very long time and it is looking more and more as if we are going to have it rammed down ...
Reform's Moment May Be Now - The Year in Medicine 2008
time.com 11/20/2008 — The last time a democratic president tried to fulfill a campaign promise to overhaul the nation's health-care system, he stumbled into a buzz saw of opposition so brutally effective that it didn't just kill the effort, it rendered the issue ...
Worse Than It Looks
talkingpointsmemo.com 12/7/2008 — Kevin Philips has written persuasively about how the official unemployment rate understates the actual jobless numbers, and you get a glimpse of that in some of the employment numbers that came out today. From the NYT :
A mass departure from the ...
Worse Than You Think - Part 1
wizbangblog.com 12/1/2008 — Congress surprised me a little while back, when they decided not to bail out the 'Big 3' automakers, who were hoping for just about fifty billion tax dollars (25 billion...
Obama warns economy to get worse
msnbc.msn.com 12/7/2008 — The economy will get significantly worse before it starts to improve, President-elect Barack Obama said, seeking in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” to tamp down expectations as he prepares to assume the presidency in 44 days.
Going to Be Worse
eschatonblog.com 3/10/2009 — Sadly I think they're still being somewhat optimistic. March 10 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. jobless rate will reach 9.4 percent this year and remain elevated through at least 2011, threatening the nation’s longer-term growth potential, a monthly ...
A dubious Wall Street Journal opinion piece on alternative medicine.
althouse.blogspot.com 1/9/2009 — I know some of my readers are doctors and scientists, and I'd like a professional assessment of what I consider to be a very weird column by Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish, Rustum Roy, and Andrew Weil. (Enough authors?) I'll just highlight a few things ...
Panel finds widespread Gulf War illness
democraticunderground.com 11/17/2008 — Source: [b]Cox News[/b]
WASHINGTON - At least one in four U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffers from a multi-symptom illness caused by exposure to toxic chemicals during the conflict, a congressionally mandated report being released Monday found.
For much of the past 17 years, ...
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