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Barclays hands out pay raises for investment bankers

Merry Christmas! It's as if the credit crisis never happened. This is what happens when you save an industry from complete collapse and fail to dictate the terms. The only people who are more...

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Tags: uk, banks
The news that insurers hate this bill was a tad premature

From The Nation's "The Beat" blog:"Health care investors find themselves having confronted their greatest fear, and, while there will be legislation, it will be significantly watered down ..."...

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Tags: health care
And now, Alvin & the Chipmunks

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Evening document dump

Assorted stories of interest:GOP Senate candidate sat by silently as Obama was called a Muslim.Health care reform bill not expected to go to Obama for signature until late January, early...

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Cancer treatment and payment in a socialist hell hole

An update from our dear friend Jane who recently finished her chemotherapy here in Paris. Just as John experienced last summer, the cost of health care in France is stunningly low compared to the...

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Tags: health care, france
The filibustering is over in the Senate, for now.

The Senate Democrats cleared the final procedural hurdle -- the filibuster of the actual health insurance bill -- this afternoon by a vote of 60 - 39. Senator Bunning (R-KY) didn't vote. The vote on...

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Tags: health care
My podcast with Bicyclemark about the Obama presidency to date

My friend Mark is an American living in Amsterdam. He has a rather successful podcast, and invited me on while he was visiting DC last week. We talked about the Obama presidency, and I tried to...

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Tags: barack obama
Bloomberg reporter reportedly wrote quote for source in effort to criticize Bloomberg competitor

Let's put aside for a moment the fact that Bloomberg is reportedly writing critical stories about its competition, and not divulging that fact to its readers (Bloomberg is starting up a for-profit...

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Tags: media
The irony is that DOD's pregnancy anti-pregnancy policy will probably lead to more abortions

I've been fascinated by this story that the Pentagon was planning on considering a court martial for women who got pregnant, and the men who helped. At first it sounded outrageous. Then I thought,...

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Tags: military, abortion
As President, Obama campaigned for the public option -- to some audiences anyway

President Barack Obama, July 20, 2009:“But, I can tell you, as I’ve been very clear about before, I continue to believe a robust public option is the best way to go.”Obama said that on the conference...

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Tags: barack obama
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