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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Despina Karras
on 08-02-2009
Filed under: economy, capitalism, free market, business concerns, investors, economic crisis, regulation, government, economics, federal government, action, government intrusion, government expansion
This week, the wacky government of Venezuela banned Coke Zero from being sold in the country. Citing harmful ingredients , it claimed to be protecting the health of its citizens, while the government purports to conduct an investigation into potentially dangerous ingredients in the soft drink. In reality...
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Despina Karras
on 06-12-2009
Filed under: capitalism, free market, business concerns, health care, universal health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, government, insurance
When medical decisions happen, the two most important people involved are always the patient and the doctor, period. Proposed "public health insurance" and other socialized health care components take decisions out of the hands of patients too often, and just as often take decisions out of...
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Justin Higgins
on 06-11-2009
Filed under: free market, Obama, health care, socialized health care, public healthcare, government, insurance
In what will be good news for many proponents of a capitalist health care solution, President Obama announced today that a single payer health care system, like some of the socialist programs of Europe, is off the table. While this is good news, he also made it clear that he would push for the big government...