In the ongoing health care debate, it is often difficult to understand the complexity of the problems that are going to be caused by rising health care costs over the next few years. With the population aging and programs like Medicare quickly running out of funds, there are few easy answers about how...
"But I'm happy to report that it has succeeded well beyond our expectations and all expectations, and we're already seeing a dramatic increase in showroom traffic at local car dealers." -Barack Obama President Obama recently used the aforementioned quote in declaring victory in the...
This week, the House passed a bill that imposes further regulations on financial firms - on executive pay which is bad enough in itself, and to add insult to injury, on the way those firms and employees do business. The bill is "aimed at preventing financial firms from adopting compensation systems...
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Unlike our President and many of our representatives in Congress, I've tried to read the 1000+ page health care bill a few times this week. As a lawyer, I'm used to dealing with tedious and confusing legal jargon, yet this monolithic bill is still too hard for me to understand. It proposes drastic...
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Crack open any financial textbook and you’ll find the objective of every finance department is to “maximize shareholder wealth.” That is their objective, concern, and responsibility. When individual investors buy into a company, they do so under the assumption that management is looking...
"I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
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Last night, the Jewish Policy Center hosted an excellent panel discussion on economics in Washington D.C. Talk radio host and bestselling author Michael Medved moderated the discussion that included Stephen Moore from the Wall Street Journal and economic experts Lacey Hunt and Douglas Holtz-Eakin. The...