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Date: 2009-03-04 06:06:48

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オバマ大統領　予算教書を議会に提出

オバマ大統領による予算教書演説短いので全文アップ。温室効果ガス(GHGs）の排出量取引を導入して収入源としつつ、環境対策に振り向けると。明日計量経済学の中間試験なので今日はこの辺で・・・。Thursday, February 26th, 2009 at 10: ... unemployed will benefit from a COBRA subsidy that will make health care affordable. At a time when health care is too often too expensive for the unemployed, this critical step will help 7 million [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 06:23:24

Preparing for the coming year

I was shocked to see a Labor Party politician on the TV news yesterday say that now we've had our retail therapy over Christmas (his words, not mine) ... of food and some cash savings firmly packed away ready to help us out a bit further down ... with your partner and work out a plan. Of course, no one can predict what will happen [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 18:57:00

The Real Culture War: Politics vs. Markets

“Yes We Can” is a good slogan.  It’s short, it’s simple, it’s positive, and it makes people feel like part of something significant ... Obama’s approach to governance.  His proposals for addressing problems in health care, education ... out of so many aspects of our lives.  Doctors and patients should be able to make decisions about health care [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 20:05:00

Socially speaking

So here we are, attempting to keep the nation from slipping under the surface of Bush’s bathtub … trying to level the playing field for workers, ... scale. Media reports it thus: His decision is yet another blow to Obama’s effort to expand health coverage this year . Pardon me? Obama needed a flashy, corporate hack in order to further the health [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 00:25:39

Obama Doubles Down

Barack Obama did not actually predict trillion-dollar deficits indefinitely; more precisely, he said, “unless we take decisive action, ... the attacks he is going to get from fiscal conservatives regarding his stimulus plan. He wants ... president with significant majorities in both houses - to tackle the long-term retirement savings [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:15:14

Radical Welfare Socialism Assaults Free Enterprise Capitalism–The “Silent” Majority Responds!

Please Help Spread The Message of Liberty   A Reminder from Ronald Reagan   “The world is split today into two hostile camps, fighting each other with the utmost vehemence, Communists and anti-Communists. The magniloquent rhetoric to which these factions resort in their feud obscures the fact that they both perfectly agree in the [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 00:10:45

Gold Isn't The Only Metal Poised To Rise Sharply

  Monday, March 2, 2009 Whitelist Us         Sorry Guys, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 10:04:00

End Our Oil Dependency: Walk More

With all the talk about developing greener technologies and alternative sources of energy to curb our consumption and clean up the environment, ... per person each year. Finally, if, as a matter of policy, those health savings were invested into CO ... the health of our planet, but that of its cities and people as well. Their discussion references [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 18:49:15

Should GE be a AAA company," I said "GE Capital isn't even a bank. The FDIC only deals with depositary institutions. Are you kidding me? The US Government is obviously willing to do anything to bail out financial institutions at this point. Forget rules and regulations. Just give them the money." The first statement is actually not correct [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 12:07:25

Would You Travel to Save Money on Surgery?

Everett Dow Jones Newswires’ Victoria Knight writes : Peggy Starr, a customer services agent for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, ... customers to travel for health care. Aetna Inc. says it already negotiates significant discounts ... conditions have made employers and workers more inventive in dealing with ever-rising health-care costs [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 16:40:25

The uncertain trumpet

By DAVID BROOKS New York Times On Tuesday night, President Obama talked about a national culture of irresponsibility ... on future outlays. Intellectually serious efforts are made to pay for at least half of the cost of health ... of shared sacrifice. They can have health care, education reform, even a cure for cancer, and 98 [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 12:23:27

Intimate democracy

Nicholas Lemann has a terrific piece in the Jan. 26 New Yorker that says that personal characteristics are not enough to make someone a great ... to health care as possibly being of that status, especially if Daschle steps up the game so that it’ ... processes, greasing the gears of government. From this, one gets efficiencies, cost savings, shorter [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 17:06:07

Intimate Democracy

Nicholas Lemann has a terrific piece in the Jan. 26 New Yorker that says that personal characteristics are not enough to make someone a great ... to health care as possibly being of that status, especially if Daschle steps up the game so that it’ ... existing processes, greasing the gears of government. From this, one gets efficiencies, cost savings [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 20:45:19

Intimate Democracy

Nicholas Lemann has a terrific piece in the Jan. 26 New Yorker that says that personal characteristics are not enough to make someone a great ... to health care as possibly being of that status, especially if Daschle steps up the game so that it’ ... existing processes, greasing the gears of government. From this, one gets efficiencies, cost savings [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 21:04:22

How Ex-Presidents & Prime Ministers Make Their Money

Upon taking up residency in the White House, a president also assumes a tidy salary of $400,000 a year, plus extra cash for expenses ... t generated any sort of savings for him, and he thought that taken a corporate position or endorsing ... , which gave retired commanders in chief pensions of $25,000 a year. At least his health insurance [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 11:45:35

Is It Really OK To Cheat With Your Weight Loss Diet And Still Succeed?

I had an enlightening conversation with a couple of my lady boot campers this week about exercising hard and “cheating” and I thought you might also ... your friends may call you a “health nut”, or “food freak” for sticking with your healthy eating plan, but who cares what your fat friends think.  They’re the ones who are going to be complaining [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 21:30:11

Obama wants to halve budget deficit

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama wants to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term, mostly by scaling back Iraq war spending, ... on Thursday, barely a week after his $787 billion economic stimulus plan becoming law. Obama’s budget also is expected to take steps toward his campaign promises of establishing universal health care [more...]

Date: 2009-02-22 01:55:01

The Best Ways To Benefit During Your Open Enrollment Period

It’s the time of year that our friendly neighborhood Human Resources Department is asking us to read dozens of booklets, study a smattering of email, ... . Medical rates and costs are and will forever be going up. Since medical bills are the leading cause ... two weeks, but you are rolling the dice with medical bills that could cost you thousands. The worst [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 13:58:46

More Evidence of a Balance Sheet Recession

"Make more loans? We're not going to change our business model or our credit policies to accommodate the needs of the public sector as they see it ... now in the housing and commercial real estate markets. Nomura Securities Chief Economist Richard Koo ... to regain their financial health, the balance sheet recession starts. A snowballing debt burden may [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 07:50:42

The Brutal Truth About Obama's Economic Recovery Plan

By Stephen Bindman Randall Forsyth is an unusually clear-sighted fellow, but one who up to now has defended the bailouts as absolutely necessary in Barrons, Dow Jones’ theoretical journal.  He comes out saying what I and a few others have been saying. “How can you expect to find solutions in the crowd that caused the problems? [more...]

Date: 2009-02-04 17:56:13

The New Administration = Culture of Death

The White House's new resident hasn't wasted any time from his glamourous, overindulgent celebrating in the face of unemployement, forclosures, ... of legislation to expand access to contraception, health information, and preventive services to help reduce ... . The Act will also end insurance discrimination against contraception, improve awareness [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 16:03:00

Small Business Money Terms

entrepreneurs raise at least part of the capital for start-up and operating expenses by asking friends and family and previous business colleagues to lend a monetary hand. Though some may ask for partial ownership in your fledgling firm, most will be satisfied by your personal guarantee of a payback date— usually with interest [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 19:48:44

And just which stellar "investment vehicle" should we pick, there, Mr. President?

I've never been under any delusion that a politician is going to go to Washington and serve anyone other than his corporate masters ... would force employers that don’t offer retirement plans to enroll employees in a “direct-deposit IRA ... , or about half the workforce, lacks employer-based retirement plans, according to the administration [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 10:34:00

If gay marriage is recognized by the Commonwealth; the federal government must comply?

Breaking News: Mary Ritchie, a Massachusetts State Police trooper, has been married for almost five years and has two children ... allowed to add her spouse to her health insurance plan; a Social Security Administration retiree ... married couples receive, such as pensions and health insurance. Plaintiffs also include Dean Hara [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 14:35:49

AIG: The Looting Continues (Banana Republic Watch)

The Wall Street Journal reports, as was rumored on Friday, that AIG appears on the verge of approving a considerably enlarged and sweetened rescue package from the government. We were less than happy with the idea when it first surfaced (see our rant "The Black Hole Gets Bigger: AIG Back for Yet Another Bailout"). Let us review the basics: 1 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 04:46:23

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.           Wally Lamb “Downward” Mobility, I say do the Downward Dog yoga pose ... (the carrier for many of AARP health care programs), Aetna, Humana, Blue Cross Blue Shield make your health care decisions and small businesses who employ the bulk of Americans end health insurance [more...]

Date: 2009-03-01 11:45:28

National Security Challenges For Obama Administration

By Michael P. Noonan PANEL 1: How Will We Fight? Colonel T.X. Hammes, USMC (ret.), author of The Sling and the Stone , opened by noting that the U.S. has no national strategy, but rather a series of goals with no ways or means assigned to them. He argued that the Department of Defense must return to threat-based analysis after the past decade of [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 13:00:17

Begin Observing your Personal Finance and Retirement Planning

by Tim Simmons People do not often think about retirement as there is so much else going on in their lives like; children, monthly bills, car payments, health care costs, jobs, and in that rare moment a little time for yourself ... the ball in motion. Just as you take care of your personal finances such as savings and your checking [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 16:20:51

OP/ED: Obama’s “Brave New World”

·           Obama reveals plan for brave new world … His first budget shows that he means to remake the country in the image of European ... into the U.S. system, it is state capitalism — more Soviet than Swedish …     Obama reveals plan ... from the private sector and spreading it around federal programs designed to remake healt [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 12:55:39

10 Fast Facts on the Administration’s FY 2010 Budget

The Acting President Obama’s Administration released its FY 2010 budget today, it’s all an act really, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) warned taxpayers that “ the era of big government is back, and Democrats want you to pay for it .” In 2009, federal spending will approach $4 trillion, or 28 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 11:21:41

In The News Today

Dear President Obama, You think you have problems now? Present challenges, economic or political, are nothing compared to when this one lands on your desk; the implications of which are generational in nature. Respectfully yours, Jim Pakistan ‘bigger problem’ than Afghanistan: US diplomat LONDON (AFP) [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 19:22:00

CUNY Charts a New Approach to Community College

Students would be required to enroll full time, taking at least 12 credits a semester. Majors would be limited to about a dozen fields with robust job opportunities, including health care and environmental technology. Admission would still be open to anyone with a high school diploma or G.E.D., but face-to-face interviews would be required [more...]

Date: 2009-01-26 13:51:33

Congress to Obama: Not So Fast

Just days after President Obama outlined his proposed budget, which includes tax modifications (yeah, it’s a cheesy word, keep reading) ... of the plan. Chief among them is Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) who questioned whether the plan would work. The White House is touting the plan as necessary to make a dent [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 03:14:44

The View From Your Recession

A reader writes: Our household’s recession started a couple years earlier than the one now affecting the world economy ... health issues – expensive health issues that require lots of expensive tests.  Eventually, she’s unable ... s even able to think about work again, and her health won’t allow her to go back into the field she left [more...]

Date: 2009-03-01 20:08:00

Jumpstart Medicine

I highly recommend Jumpstart. In fact, I have a special offer for anyone in wanting to try Jumpstart in Redwood City or Mountain View: $25 off your first visit (just print it and bring it to your appointment). With four locations in California, Jump Start Medicine provides its patients with a weight loss program that, on average, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 18:46:58

What is Your Financial Fallback Plan?

This weekend I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a few days now - join the new personal finance and blogging forum at Bargaineering ... do you have a plan “B” in place? The author of the thread went on to explain how he lost his job ... you know. That thread got me thinking more about our financial fallback plan. For better or worse [more...]

Date: 2009-02-09 11:04:51

Financial Forecast for 2009, Considering Resource Limitations

In this post, I consider some major issues contributing to our current financial problems, before making a financial forecast for 2009. These are 1 ... classes are highly correlated in times of distress. We keep hearing about plans to stimulate the "consumer" to buy more. Until I stopped to think about it, it wasn't obvious to me that the consumer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:10:32

Obama Loses Another Convert as Taylor Puts Down the Kool Aid

Stuart Taylor is one of America’s leading authorities on legal matters, and has been praised for his independence and his critical thinking ... health care, universal postsecondary education, a massive overhaul of the energy economy, and other liberal programs seem grandiose and unaffordable. With little in the way of offsetting savings [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 20:40:40

Budget Update

We have a lot of stuff to report on Comrade Presidente Obama's budget. Let's start with Republican Leader, my Congressman and a Great American -- John Boehner: “Republicans want to work with the President and Democrats in Congress on a responsible budget that helps our economy recover without piling more debt on future generations [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 22:36:00

In the war for deposits, banks trounce thrifts, money funds

One aim of the government’s financial-system bailout plan is to make strong banks stronger while forcing weaker institutions to sell themselves or ... Reserve show that savings deposits at commercial banks jumped $186 billion from Sept. 1 through Oct ... with money market mutual funds. The trend has been the same with certificates of deposit. Commercial [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 05:19:09

Obama Readies Fiscal Discipline Plan that Includes Raising Taxes on Wealthiest Americans

This is great news, and it will be great fun to see the Republicans describe moderate and reasonable tax increases on the wealthy as a threat to ... ... Mr. Obama will propose cutting a variety of programs, including the Medicare Advantage subsidies for insurance companies that cover seniors who can otherwise acquire health coverage directly [more...]

Date: 2009-02-22 13:09:00

George W. Bush

While at Yale, he maintained just a ‘C’ average. His transcript reveals that he received a ‘71’ in Political Science, barely passing,’ and a course vital to national public office. In another Poly Sci course he opted for a ‘P’ for pass, rather than a number grade. In City Planning, he received a ’75.’ In Economics, he earned just a ’72 [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 05:30:45

The Messiah’s First Sermon From The Hill

Excerpts… We have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; ... , and invest in areas like energy, health care, and education that will grow our economy, even ... to do, and that’s what I’d like to talk to you about tonight. … The recovery plan and the financial [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 00:56:20

The opening move

WELL that didn’t take long. Today Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate’s finance committee, released a blueprint for sweeping health-care legislation, ... when $1 trillion deficits and 400-point drops in the Dow are beginning to seem mundane. The plan doesn’t deviate much from the standard Democratic line on health care. Among other things, MarketWatch [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 12:25:25

Open-Access Fiber Networks

Introduction It is the paradoxical purpose of this paper to simultaneously suggest that a single “big picture” idea can, if brought into practice, bring positive and transformative change to America’s communications infrastructure, and, indeed, the large swaths of social and economic activity that rely on that infrastructure, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 18:24:16

How to Create an Effective Budget

Many finance newbies are surprised to learn that in as little as thirty minutes they can create an effective budget and allow it to become an ... which money is spent on. Be sure to add savings to the budget – if you have not already established a savings account. You should save at least ten percent of the income from all sources, which [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 08:37:27

He Won; America Lost: Obama's Budget Would Euthanize Economy

The Washington Post reports that Barack Obama is finishing up his budget proposal , and if their information is at all correct, ... , he couldn't come up with a worse plan than raising taxes on businesses and the wealthy. Americans have seen ... include key changes to environmental policies and a major expansion of health coverage [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 21:59:00

Hocus Pocus Time

Not even the Washington Posteditors are keeping a straight face when describing this week’s “fiscal responsibility summit”: ... administration has not yet gotten ramped up. A trillion or more on the stimulus plan, an equal or greater amounts on the bank and mortgage bailouts, and then health care legislation which is still deemed [more...]

Date: 2009-02-22 12:00:55

Spring Forward This Sunday

One less hour of sleep supplies 8 months of extended daytime By Abby Lerner If you wake up Sunday and wonder why the time on your cell phone ... The retail world loves daylight savings. Think about it: More sunlight hours after work means more time to go out and spend money. “Since 1950, the first and the most persistent backers of daylight savings [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 23:03:13

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