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• Expect rising healthcare costs with and without aging baby boomers

  
  FP Trading Desk — Authority: 577
  Have you been losing sleep over government deficits? No wonder. You can’t turn on the television or open a magazine without being subjected to horror stories about the red ink being spilled in Ottawa, Washington and other capitals around the world. The punditocracy want something done about it. Exactly what is not ...
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• How HHS Became a Government Propaganda Machine

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 759
  In an arrogant and somewhat bizarre display of disinformation, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is feeding local news sources with “new reports” about health insurance “reform.” Local stories have started appearing, citing new reports from HHS. A story out of northwest Indiana, for ...
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• Niall Ferguson on the debt trap and the fate of empires

  
  The Animal Spirits Page — Authority: 120
  Via:  Newsweek    Big picture stuff worth reading. 
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• Real Cost of ObamaCare Tops $6 Trillion

  
  The Hoosierpundit — Authority: 480
  The Cato Institute digs deep into the numbers: Congressional Democrats are using several budget gimmicks to disguise the cost of their health care overhaul, claiming the House and Senate bills would cost only (!) about $1 trillion over 10 years. Now that critics have begun to correct for those budget ...
  16 hours ago

• The Obamas Puttin On the Ritz

  
  The Hoosierpundit — Authority: 480
  A video presentation about the lavish tent of the Obamas first State Dinner .
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• The Holiday Weigh-In

  
  The Hoosierpundit — Authority: 480
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• A Tax On Dining Out

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 432
  David Boaz of the Cato Institute alerts us to an article in the Washington Post about efforts by two Virginia counties (Fairfax and Loudon) to put a surtax on dining out:Despite the recession, a growing number of Northern Virginia officials say they think people would be willing to pay more when dining out to avoid ...
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• 2010 WCup stadiums almost ready – S.African officials

  
  Soccer News Info — Authority: 157
  Once a headache for the local organising committee, the 10 South African stadiums for the 2010 World Cup are now pride and joy as they are set to be ready on time for the football extravaganza. Stadium construction faced many challenges, including strikes in July when more than 70,000 workers asked for salary ...
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• Odds and ends for 11/29

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 437
  Policy misprescription: Switzerland has voted to ban construction of minarets . No good can come of this. In terms of confusing symptom with illness, it’s sort of like a doctor voting to ban coughing. And the Swiss are going to catch it both from the civil-libertarian community and from Muslims and their friends. ...
  18 hours ago

• Fun with numbers

  
  Beers with Demo — Authority: 505
  Today has been brought to by the numbers 135 and 312 . 135 rhymes with the amount of money in billions that the federal government took in revenue for the month of October. And 312 rhymes with amount of money in billions that same federal government spent in the month of October. Having fun with that Hope and ...
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• Defending Obama…Again

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 733
  I caught a lot of flack from my Republican friends for my post blaming the FY2009 deficit on Bush instead of Obama. Well, I must be a glutton for punishment because I can’t resist jumping (albeit reluctantly) to Obama’s defense again. I’m venting my spleen for two reason. First, FoxNews.com posted a story ...
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• The Problem with Deficit Financing a War

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 511
  (War bonds ad from the 1940s, from “Found in Mom’s Basement” blog .) As Bruce Bartlett explains in his Forbes column , when a war is deficit financed, people tend to (way) underestimate its economic cost (like all other things that are deficit financed), and that tends to tilt the subjective cost-benefit ...
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• The Fed Doesn’t Want Banks to Increase Lending

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Source: Washington’s Blog Tim Duy – Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Economics at the University of Oregon and the Director of the Oregon Economic Forum – noticed an amazing sentence in the minutes of the most recent meeting of the Fed Open Market Committee: As has already been ...
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• Advisor Alert - November 27, 2009

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  The following report is the advisor alert produced by US Global Investors , a comprehensive weekly alert providing SWOT analysis for all major market groups. You may listen to it in its entirety here while you work: Download audio file (55e283bf-ebd7-436b-06d2-245317d74b6c.mp3) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ...
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• Spending become Dem political problem

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 543
  Karl Rove: After engineering an unprecedented spending surge for nearly a year, President Barack Obama now wants to signal that he takes deficits seriously. So this week the White House announced that it is considering creating a commission to figure how to fix the budget mess. Eureka! Well, almost. What seems ...
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• An Empirical Test: Capitalism vs. Socialism in Post-War Germany

  
  GM's Place.Com — Authority: 129
  After the financial crash of 2007 – 2008, Newsweek columnists Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas wrote an article, which appeared in the February 16, 2009 edition, entitled “We’re All Socialists Now.” Meacham and Thomas wrote:If we fail to acknowledge the reality of the growing role of government in the economy, ...
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• Thanksgiving tradition – precedented and “un”

  
  Donklephant — Authority: 534
  The administration that initiated so much that is unprecedented in American politics, introduced an unprecedented new Thanksgiving tradition – carving up our currency for the holidays. Before considering this new tradition, let us not forget the greatest tradition of this holiday, taking time to count our ...
  4 days ago

• Fiscal responsibility, part II

  
  The United States of Jamerica — Authority: 421
  ( Originally posted at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen ) I don’t understand how Conor can say this with a straight face: You’d think after rightly complaining about the Bush Administration’s unprecedented irresponsibility for eight years, leading Democrats would understand that we’re trapped in a ...
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• Odds and ends for 11/25

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 437
  Roots: Here’s one good reason not to go looking for your birth parents. Coincidence?: On Tuesday, Obama’s top Pentagon official for detainee affairs, who had long and publicly opposed military commissions for terrorism suspects, quits . Today, late in the afternoon on the day before a four-day holiday ...
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• Eight Years Later, Still No Appetite to Share the Burden of War Funding

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 743
  Here’s an interesting response from Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, when asked by a reporter this morning whether Congress intends to pay for the wars its launched, or continue to borrow the money and pile onto federal deficits. Defending America is a number one ...
  5 days ago

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