Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Macro Effects of Healthcare Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_L_Kasriel
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is too complex a piece of legislation for me to provide anything more than a broad-brush analysis of its macro impact to the U.S economy. From my understanding of it, the PPACA primarily represents a redistribution of income from the young and healthy to the under-65 less healthy. This is the implication of mandatory enrollment in a health insurance plan. Young healthy individuals will be induced to enroll in a health insurance plan, which will enlarge the risk pool with less risky participants, thereby lowering the health insurance premiums for the riskier members.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Doug Casey, U.S. Can Never Win the “War on Terrorism”, Investment Implications / Politics / US Politics
By: Casey_Research
Almost exactly three years before the 9/11 attacks, Doug Casey had one of his famous Guru Moments, writing in the September 1998 edition of the International Speculator:
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Financial Sector Regulations Fleeting Opportunities / Politics / Market Regulation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“The Senate Banking Committee has approved Democratic legislation overhauling Wall Street Regulations on a party-line vote. The bill now goes to the Senate, where its prospects remain in doubt…
The committee vote Monday was 13-10…
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Government Authorities are Looking Out for Themselves - As Should Everyone / Politics / US Politics
By: Fred_Sheehan
"China in Midst of 'Greatest Bubble in History'", Bloomberg told readers on March 17, 2010. That was the opinion of certain experts interviewed by the news service. One expert held the opposite view: "'People making comments about bubbles possibly don't have all the facts,' HSBC Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael Georghegan said in Shanghai today. Regulators are in control of the banking industry, and have the ability to curb lending as needed, he said."
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Social Inequality in America, Widening Income Disparities / Politics / Social Issues
By: Vi_Ransel
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." - Brazilian archbishop Dom Helder Camara
"The difference between social service and social justice" is that social service "works to alleviate hardship" while social justice "aims to eradicate the root causes of that hardship." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Financial Fraud, Wall Street, The Next Big Fight / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Danny_Schechter
In Britain, the police are raiding Hedge Funds to bust insider traders. In America, the Hedge Funds are still raiding us, even as public opinion calls for a crackdown on Wall Street. One recent poll, in a nation that seems so divided on everything, showed 82% for aggressive action. 82%!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
U.S. Healthcare Reform Bill, Help! I’ve Been Taxed and I Can’t Get Up / Politics / Taxes
By: Jeff_Clark
Jeff Clark, Senior Editor, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report
Like many of you, the passage of the healthcare bill wasn’t met with the popping of champagne in my house. I found myself chanting “Uncle Sam, Uncle Sham” as the day wore on. Higher taxes and other major changes are headed our way. And yet, I think there’s something in the bill that’s even more dastardly.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Government Healthcare Intervention, The Bigger Picture / Politics / Government Spending
By: Douglas_French
The prospect and reality of Obamacare have woken up many people to the need to stop the socialization of medical care in America. It will produce here what it has produced everywhere: stagnation, overutilization, rationing, and the sacrifice of individual well-being in the name of collective justice.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Federal Reserve Banking System is a Confidence Game, What They Were Saying in 2007 / Politics / Central Banks
By: Mark_Thornton
In February of 2004, I published an article entitled "Greenspam." The general lesson was not to listen to Greenspan's deceptive testimony. Delete it from your mind like spam email messages. Watch what he has done and what he is doing, in order to protect your wealth and capital. Discount anything you read about his testimony, except Congressmen Paul's questions and commentary.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
U.S. Healthcare, More Slight of Hand From Oboudini / Politics / US Politics
By: Butler_Shaffer
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself ~ James Wolcott
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Obamacare and the Death of Detroit, the First U.S. City To Face Extinction / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
To understand what is going to happen to America's health care delivery system, we must first understand what has happened to Detroit.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Acting Nigerian President Moves Quickly, Decisively to Get Country Back on Track / Politics / Africa
By: OilPrice_Com
Acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has moved decisively and rapidly to unify the Government under him, dismissing — on March 17, 2010 — the entire Cabinet which had been appointed by the now-incapacitated Pres. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. This followed his move, the week before, to appoint Lt.-Gen. Aliyu Mohammed Gusau as the new National Security Advisor, a post which oversees all the intelligence and security services as well as the Armed Forces. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
ObamaCare: Soon to be the Worst Bill Passed in U.S. History (Part 1) / Politics / Healthcare Sector
By: Mike_Stathis
With Obama’s healthcare bill ready to sign, democrats are celebrating. Meanwhile, (supposedly) enraged republicans insist payback will come in November. This is part of the typical back-and-forth theatrics staged to galvanize voter support for each party. Please do not allow yourself to be fooled by these games. As the facts show, both parties are essentially the same when it comes to issues that matter most to working-class Americans; free trade and healthcare, as first detailed in America’s Financial Apocalypse.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Uses British Passport to Avoid U.S. No Fly Terror List? / Politics / UK Politics
By: John_York
Benjamin Netanyahu entered the United States to deliver a key note speech at the Israeli lobby group AIPAC in Washington. Given the behaviour of the Israeli regime in terms of terrorism against civilians and assassination squads roaming the world which is on par and in a number of cases worse than the other middle eastern regimes such as Iran. Therefore it is not inconceivable that the Israeli Prime Minister could have also used a forged British Passport to enter the United States so as to by pass the U.S. No fly list of those suspected to be linked to terrorism.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Socialized Medicine, The Road to Wealth Destruction / Politics / US Politics
By: Mac_Slavo
A recent Wall Street Journal article by Brett Arends titled Is Socialized Medicine Bad for Your Wealth? examines the impact of socialized medicine on your wealth and argues that it may not be so bad after all.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Bailing out the Greeks, The Revolt in the Eurozone / Politics / Euro-Zone
By: Global_Research
Binoy Kampmark writes: "You made a great mistake when you went back to the gold standard at the wrong parity of exchange in 1925." Charlie Chaplin to Winston Churchill
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Defeat in Victory, the Democrats' Health Care Bill / Politics / US Politics
By: Shamus_Cooke
What looks like a big victory for Obama and the Democrats may be their greatest undoing. It’s true that the passage of Obama’s health care bill represents a significant political victory for the Democrats. But sometimes a battle won could equal a lost war.
It’s telling that Obama had so much trouble in getting his own party to pass the bill on a simple majority basis: the bill was so blatantly watered down with the corporate hose that anyone with their name attached to it feared future electoral doom.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
U.S. Implodocare, Death by Debt / Politics / US Debt
By: Jack_D_Douglas
The wild-eyed, in-and-out "Health Care" burger BO and his henchmen and women cooked up at yesterday's spending and tax orgy on the Hill front-loads the freebies for the least productive parts of society and back-loads the trillions in new taxes, regulations, radical changes, and costly cuts for the more productive Americans.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Capitalism Is Racist, More Crazy Keynesianism From Krugman / Politics / US Politics
By: William_Anderson
I have come to expect wooly-headed partisanship from Paul Krugman instead of economic analysis, and that is one reason I started this blog. The other reason was that I want to have another source that attacks and exposes the Keynesian fallacies for what they are: dangerous nonsense.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Can You Help Me Find My Market? / Politics / Economic Theory
By: LewRockwell
Socialists believe in two things which are absolutely different and perhaps even contradictory: freedom and organization. ~ Élie Halévy