business.theatlantic.com - 1/22/2009
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Jan 22 2009, 12:38PM Pay up, or Grandma gets it: the perils of Medicare reform by Jeffrey Young How hard will it be for President Obama to fulfill his campaign promise to reform the health care system by the end of the first term? The answer, of course, is "very." In large measure, this is ...
business.theatlantic.com - 1/22/2009
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Matt Yglesias puts forward some of the current
arguments for nationalizing insolvent banks; Paul Krugman and Felix...
Salmon are pushing a similar approach. Maybe, but I'm not yet convinced. It's easy enough to argue that any single bank yields a ...
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Is Bank Nationalization Really the Way To Go? - The ...
business.theatlantic.com - 1/28/2009
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The implicit interest rate is about 12% APR.
Not many people get that rate of return on...
savings, CDs or 401K investments right now, or at any time in the near future. So presumably no even marginally rational person would take this financing offer ...
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A nation of children, drowning in debt - The Atlantic ...
business.theatlantic.com - 1/24/2009
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Just five paragraphs into the new administration, President
Obama warned us that "we are in the midst...
of crisis." The last time a president warned that we were in the midst of crisis, we got Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition and the TSA. No doubt ...
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Why the Bush years weren't so bad - The Atlantic ...
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Megan McArdle —
So this is the project that I alluded to this morning: Atlantic Business. It is, as the name suggests, a new Atlantic website focused on business. One of the main features is a group blog on which most of my Asymmetrical Information content will be appearing. There are also special features, like the interview with Michael Lewis we've got up. We've also got something that a lot of you (and me!) have been wanting for a while: registered comments. Eventually they'll be migrating over here, too, but for now, I hope commenters will stick ...
TYLER COWEN: Don’t Nationalize the Banks — Yet.
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TYLER COWEN: Don’t Nationalize the Banks — Yet.
From The Atlantic’s new Business Blog.
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... Today,we launched Atlantic's new business page, with new content, new bloggers, and Megan McArdle's curation. Our Conor Clarke has an interview with Michael Lewis (a New, New Interview), Jeffrey Young writes on the prospect for health care reform and Harvey Wallbanger writes on customer-focused companies. Here's how the Editors are describing our endeavor: ...
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The website of The Atlantic magazine has started a new "Atlantic Business Channel" and I've been asked to contribute. Nothing from me there yet, but Meghan McCardel and others are already up and running. You can check it out (and perhaps even bookmark it) here .
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... Tyler Cowen a post on the perils of bank nationalization over at the Atlantic's ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Manzi speaks the truth: American consumers are awash in debt, drowning in it. This is the fundamental issue with the stimulus proposal. We're trying to borrow our way out of debt. Unfortunately, we need a recession. That is, consumption must decline because for some time we have been consuming more than we produce or have reasonable prospects of producing. Monetary policy has been used to inflate a series of bubbles to avoid the consequences of excess debt, and the more we try to hold it off, the worse it's ...
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GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS. As some of you know, I’m the Business and Economics Editor of The Atlantic, the editor of Atlantic Business, the business section of our website, and a blogger in my own right. I also enjoy travel, fine dinings, and romantic moonlight walks on the beach . . .
Right now, as you might expect, I’m thinking a great deal about the de-facto nationalization of General Motors, and what this means for America. Nothing good, I’m pretty sure. On the other hand, our own Conor Clarke has crunched the numbers on ...
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