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U. Maryland: U. Maryland prof: Fixing health care transcends party lines

UWIRE-10/08/2008-U. "This is not a problem that will cure itself," said Jack Meyer, a professor in the university's school of public health and policy, during his presentation on the health care plans of presidential candidates...

Socialism Bush Style: Feds To Take Stakes In US Banks

We are all Swedes now: Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial...

Unaplogetic Greed

I’ve decided to confine, or should I say, “segment” my personal observations and beliefs to The Analytics Guru and focus my professional beliefs and ideas on WebMetricsGuru.com, because I’ve gotten enough feedback that some of...

AYERS-OBAMA: THE VOTERS DON’T CARE - Rick Moran

The McCain campaign is perplexed, bothered, and bewildered of late. Despite Barack Obama’s past associations with radical bombers, nauseating racial bigots, and anti-semitic Palestinians, the media doesn’t seem to want to...

A Primer On Safety Nets

Bernanke claims his rate cut would enable him to 'To get out ahead of the situation ... US policymakers deserve the Nobel Prize for applied economics. The policy response to financial asset deflation was not only fast, but...

How Harper Gov't Pushed Financial Deregulation Here, Abroad (in Views)

PM Harper and Finance Minister Flaherty. In response to a pessimistic Merrill Lynch report on Canada's housing market, for example, Harper said "We don't have the same situation here with the mortgages as was the case in the...

Brown knows

Will America follow Britain's lead? NOT only did he avoid a protracted, public, and embarrassing governmental showdown over his chosen bank rescue policy, prime minister Gordon Brown also seems to have tailored his policy to...

The Opinionator: Bailout, British-Style

We’ll get to the debate fallout later, but let’s not forget that our world is crumbling. “Desperate to halt chaos swirling through Europe’s markets,” The Times reports this morning, “Britain announced a massive, three-part...

Free Traitors

Jagdish Bhagwati is a humble man. He will tell you so himself. Describing the effect of his book In Defense of Globalization during a speech at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) last fall, the...

How Harper Gov't Pushed Financial Deregulation Here and Abroad (in Views)

PM Harper and Finance Minister Flaherty. In response to a pessimistic Merrill Lynch report on Canada's housing market, for example, Harper said "We don't have the same situation here with the mortgages as was the case in the...