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Daily Archives: July 20, 2009

Fixing Health Care: “The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Lawyers”

July 20, 2009
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Fixing Health Care: “The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Lawyers”

Today we start with healthcare, a subject that you’ve shown you care about deeply.  The reason for revisiting the topic:  our “public servants” in Washington are still wrestling to achiinvoeve consensus on the issue, while new data has come to light from the Massachusetts experiment. (And I’m not really advocating killing lawyers, but Shakespeare’s words do suggest some sentiments that stem from their involvement in the health care industry.) It was three years ago that our Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney, signed a bill aimed at achieving universal coverage for healthcare. Since then the percentage of uninsured Bay Staters has...

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Gas Prices Don’t Predict Green Stock Performance

July 20, 2009
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Gas Prices Don’t Predict Green Stock Performance

Oil and gasoline prices, as you likely have noticed, have been easing lately, even as we’re in the midst of what energy industry hands call “the summer driving season,” the period in which people tend to drive a lot for vacations and weekend visits and in general give energy traders reasons to bid the prices up. It’s hard to believe that one year ago a gallon of gas averaged $4.06 nationally, according to the Energy Information Agency. That was the highest weekly average since 1990–the low being early March 1999, when gas cost a mere 89 cents. Last week,...

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