In testimony before the Senate Budget Committee yesterday, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke once again tells it like it is.
Category Archives: health care
Does a new economic team mean a new economic policy?
Henry Paulson has been nominated to the position of Secretary of Treasury. Will it matter?
Declining real wages
How concerned should we be about the downward trend in real wages?
Facing the 900-pound gorilla
Sooner or later we have to do something about Medicare. Why not sooner?
Murky future for Merck
So what’s the big deal? We’ll just get some other company to take its place in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Investigating charges of Medi-Cal fraud
There are some obvious steps we could take to make sure that state and federal contributions for medical assistance are spent as effectively as possible.
Romney’s new health care proposal
The governor of Massachusetts has some new ideas for health care that, if nothing else, may help stimulate public discussion of the problem and our options for dealing with it.