President Joe Biden has issued more executive orders in his first week in office — not yet complete, as of this writing — than any of his 45 predecessors…
Kamala Harris Tells Big Lie: That 2012 Mortgage Settlement Was a Good Deal for Homeowners…
The Big Whopper season is already upon us, in the form of presidential aspirants telling egregious lies about their track records. The Wall Street Journal tonight covers a section from Kamala Harris’ new book, in which she touts what a great deal she got for California homeowners in the so-called Federal-49 state National Mortgage Settlement […]
UK Negotiators Have Adopted a Hard Bargaining Strategy…
Quelle Surprise! Study Confirms that ACA Narrow Networks Exclude Top Cancer Doctors…
Lambert and once in a great while yours truly have written about one of the nasty-by-design ways insurers game Obamacare: via so-called narrow networks. Bear in mind that there is no precise definition, but a “narrow network” is one that restricts access to specialists. We’ve pointed out that this feature can allow insurers to engage […]
GOP Makes Bogus Case for Bank Deregulation as Senate Certain to Curtail House Dodd Frank “Reform”…
We’ve argued from the crisis onward that the limited re-regulation of banking that took place was inadequate. But the Republicans are whinging that banks nevertheless are being treated badly despite a lack of evidence behind virtually all of their claims. The effort to give already-overly-coddled banks an even better deal is lumbering forward. The House […]
“New York Times Article Promotes Price-Fixing in the Drug Market”…
That little cartel-hugging, rent-seeking suck-up, Austin Frakt, just posted that the solution to high drug prices is higher drug prices…