Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.--deTocqueville
Modern Healthcare (10/23, Livingston, Subscription Publication) reports that “an analysis by the American Medical Association” indicates “a single health insurance company dominates the commercial insurance market in more than 4 in 10 of the nation’s metropolitan areas.”
Navarro's argument is that free trade works only if the worker displaced by foreign competition moves at least laterally. His opponents argue that trade wars damage everyone, individually and collectively. In a way, protectionism turns the protected group into a dependent sub-class, like zoo animals, dependent upon the largess of those less damaged by the protectionism. Until It fails.
There is an argument over controlled immigration that the citizen of a country is its owner. So control is justified. But that makes any control justified. The problem seems to be the circumstance of the nation: Is the nation nothing more than geography? For example, can an entity that believes meat-eating to be evil allow meat-eaters to swell the population until meat-eating is encouraged? In this view, the nation would be a voluntary association with a geography, not just a geographic entity. So admittance would be more than a simple libertarian free movement, it would entail an acceptance of some rules, some limits. A geography constituted as an Islamic State would be within its rights to discourage Christians or Jews from entering.
Modern Healthcare (10/23, Livingston, Subscription Publication) reports that “an analysis by the American Medical Association” indicates “a single health insurance company dominates the commercial insurance market in more than 4 in 10 of the nation’s metropolitan areas.”
HealthDay (10/23, Preidt) reports, “Analyzing 2016 data, researchers found that in 43 percent of 389 cities, just one health insurer had at least a 50 percent share of the market.” HealthDay points out, “That compares with 40 percent of cities in 2014.” Meanwhile, “69 percent of health insurance markets in those 389 cities were “highly concentrated” in 2016, meaning there was a significant lack of competition.”
Healthcare Finance News (10/23, Lagasse) reports that “the 10 states with the least competitive commercial health insurance markets were Alabama, Delaware, Hawaii, South Carolina, Louisiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Vermont, Alaska and Illinois.”
Navarro is the much-criticized Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Industrial Policy, and the Director of the White House National Trade Council. A former professor of economics and public policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, Navarro is the author of over a dozen books, including Death by China. He is an opponent of unfettered free trade. His arguments are not precisely economic but rather soft/sociological.
Last week, the news media obtained a slide presentation by Navarro that earned immediate ridicule. Here’s the most-shared slide.
Navarro's argument is that free trade works only if the worker displaced by foreign competition moves at least laterally. His opponents argue that trade wars damage everyone, individually and collectively. In a way, protectionism turns the protected group into a dependent sub-class, like zoo animals, dependent upon the largess of those less damaged by the protectionism. Until It fails.
There is an argument over controlled immigration that the citizen of a country is its owner. So control is justified. But that makes any control justified. The problem seems to be the circumstance of the nation: Is the nation nothing more than geography? For example, can an entity that believes meat-eating to be evil allow meat-eaters to swell the population until meat-eating is encouraged? In this view, the nation would be a voluntary association with a geography, not just a geographic entity. So admittance would be more than a simple libertarian free movement, it would entail an acceptance of some rules, some limits. A geography constituted as an Islamic State would be within its rights to discourage Christians or Jews from entering.
Who is...Leon Wieseltier?
"....almost never does the economic thinker feel it necessary to offer evidence that his proposed state intervention will work as it is supposed to, and almost never does he feel it necessary to offer evidence that the imperfectly attained necessary or sufficient condition for perfection is large enough in the actual world such that its imperfect fulfillment reduces by very much the performance of the economy in aggregate."--McCloskey
I must admit I am overwhelmed by the Newsweek article about $145 million being transferred to the Clintons from the world/Russian uranium interests. I am just astonished it happened and that no one cares. But on the drive to work Friday, NPR thanked their sponsors. One was Kasperski. This is all getting just unbelievable. Kasperski!
(Incidentally, a well regarded popular novelist has a story-line where the PM of Great Britain is blackmailed into approving a Russian bid for drilling rights in the North Atlantic.)
Maybe this means that voting is just a placebo.
Machiavelli criticizes Christianity for having “rendered the world weak, and given it in prey to wicked men, who are able to manipulate it securely, since mankind, in order to go to Heaven, thinks how to endure the beatings they receive, rather than how to avenge them”. But he also believed the worst instincts of the populace could be managed by means of religion and the requirement of military service.
Is the Multiverse what is meant by "free will?"
"....almost never does the economic thinker feel it necessary to offer evidence that his proposed state intervention will work as it is supposed to, and almost never does he feel it necessary to offer evidence that the imperfectly attained necessary or sufficient condition for perfection is large enough in the actual world such that its imperfect fulfillment reduces by very much the performance of the economy in aggregate."--McCloskey
I must admit I am overwhelmed by the Newsweek article about $145 million being transferred to the Clintons from the world/Russian uranium interests. I am just astonished it happened and that no one cares. But on the drive to work Friday, NPR thanked their sponsors. One was Kasperski. This is all getting just unbelievable. Kasperski!
(Incidentally, a well regarded popular novelist has a story-line where the PM of Great Britain is blackmailed into approving a Russian bid for drilling rights in the North Atlantic.)
Maybe this means that voting is just a placebo.
Machiavelli criticizes Christianity for having “rendered the world weak, and given it in prey to wicked men, who are able to manipulate it securely, since mankind, in order to go to Heaven, thinks how to endure the beatings they receive, rather than how to avenge them”. But he also believed the worst instincts of the populace could be managed by means of religion and the requirement of military service.
Is the Multiverse what is meant by "free will?"
Golden oldie: http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/sunday-sermon-71413.html
From Quora: An old man finds a young woman weeping on the steps of an apartment and asks, “What in the world could have happened to make you cry so much?” The woman answered “my boyfriend just dumped me. I just moved in and he dumped me. He said he didn’t love me anymore” and then the man said “the only love that matters is how you love yourself”.
Is that true?
Trump is in the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. Before you say, "Oh, sure," you should know there is a movement to throw him out! But Trump has good company:...Lincoln is in it too, although he was not alive to approve it.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee were among those who paid a firm for research that led to a dossier of unverified allegations about President Trump’s activities and connections in Russia. (wsj)
If that is true, does that mean that the Special Prosecutor is the result of disinformation?
What is the purpose of an Intelligence Department? To perceive the truth that benefits the state. Or to create a mythology that benefits the state.
Iowa's (!) Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) chapter called for the hanging and extermination of all “capitalists.”
I love to hear people who think that "capitalism" is a philosophy. And it confirms my opinion to see the shameless homicidal consistency of these people.
Everyone thinks they can sing; academics think they can govern.
In 1800, 75% of [an American's] working man's expenditures went for food alone. By 1850, that had dropped to 50%. Today it is a little more than 11%.
New money is being created in India and North Korea which makes the old money worthless. Should any entity have that much power?
Groupings and Identity are convenient shorthand for pollsters, politicians and ad men. But are they basic?
Probably many will look bad here. I wonder if the destruction of faith in the U.S. government is going to be this president's legacy.
Professional athletes pay city and state taxes everywhere they play.
118,000 social security checks last month were garnished by the government from grandparents who countersigned a student loan whose grandchild defaulted.
Catherine Keating, CEO of Commonfund, said: "Don't count too much on your plan. The world just moves too fast today." It used to take 25 years for a new product, like the automobile or the TV, to reach 25% of the U.S. population. "Facebook did it in five years, and some mobile games have done it in months. It took Hilton Hotels almost 100 years to acquire 800,000 hotel rooms. Airbnb acquired a million rooms in just six years. How do you plan for that? You can't. Don't even try."
Don't even try?
AAAAAaaaaannnnnnddddd...a chart of Portfolios: left to right: 100% stocks, 80% stocks and 20% bonds, 60% stocks and 40% bonds:.
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Today's gospel is the Good Samaritan. A priest and a Levite pass by the damaged man and an outcast stops and saves him. Christ is deliver...
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According to Bovada.lv, the Penguins opened the season as Stanley Cup co-favorites with Edmonton with 8-1 odds.
After a 4-2-1 start, the Penguins dropped to third on the list, tied at 12-1 with Edmonton and Chicago. A hot start has Toronto (6-1-0) the favorite at 8-1 and Tampa Bay (6-1-1) right behind at 9-1.
From Quora: An old man finds a young woman weeping on the steps of an apartment and asks, “What in the world could have happened to make you cry so much?” The woman answered “my boyfriend just dumped me. I just moved in and he dumped me. He said he didn’t love me anymore” and then the man said “the only love that matters is how you love yourself”.
Is that true?
Trump is in the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame. Before you say, "Oh, sure," you should know there is a movement to throw him out! But Trump has good company:...Lincoln is in it too, although he was not alive to approve it.
Yikes! Leon Wieseltier, a prominent editor at The New Republic for three decades who was preparing to unveil a new magazine next week, apologized on Tuesday for “offenses against some of my colleagues in the past” after several women accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate advances.
As those allegations came to light, Laurene Powell Jobs, a leading philanthropist whose for-profit organization, Emerson Collective, was backing Mr. Wieseltier’s endeavor, decided to pull the plug on it.Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee were among those who paid a firm for research that led to a dossier of unverified allegations about President Trump’s activities and connections in Russia. (wsj)
If that is true, does that mean that the Special Prosecutor is the result of disinformation?
What is the purpose of an Intelligence Department? To perceive the truth that benefits the state. Or to create a mythology that benefits the state.
Iowa's (!) Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) chapter called for the hanging and extermination of all “capitalists.”
I love to hear people who think that "capitalism" is a philosophy. And it confirms my opinion to see the shameless homicidal consistency of these people.
Everyone thinks they can sing; academics think they can govern.
In 1800, 75% of [an American's] working man's expenditures went for food alone. By 1850, that had dropped to 50%. Today it is a little more than 11%.
New money is being created in India and North Korea which makes the old money worthless. Should any entity have that much power?
Groupings and Identity are convenient shorthand for pollsters, politicians and ad men. But are they basic?
Probably many will look bad here. I wonder if the destruction of faith in the U.S. government is going to be this president's legacy.
Professional athletes pay city and state taxes everywhere they play.
118,000 social security checks last month were garnished by the government from grandparents who countersigned a student loan whose grandchild defaulted.
Catherine Keating, CEO of Commonfund, said: "Don't count too much on your plan. The world just moves too fast today." It used to take 25 years for a new product, like the automobile or the TV, to reach 25% of the U.S. population. "Facebook did it in five years, and some mobile games have done it in months. It took Hilton Hotels almost 100 years to acquire 800,000 hotel rooms. Airbnb acquired a million rooms in just six years. How do you plan for that? You can't. Don't even try."
Don't even try?
AAAAAaaaaannnnnnddddd...a chart of Portfolios: left to right: 100% stocks, 80% stocks and 20% bonds, 60% stocks and 40% bonds:.
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