According to The Economist's report on aging, one in three Americans will be over 60 in the next 11 years. The impact of this number of older people on public spending will be unprecedented.
I have talked to hundreds of Hispanic business owners and Hispanic chambers of commerce across the country that want nothing to do with the USHCC.
The Green Shoots supporters accuse the Brown Weeds advocates of using charts that are too long and miss recent movements. So I've decided to dig up my own charts, looking at the last month or two.
The president has been telling Americans that a public plan will create competition, lower the cost of private insurance, and improve care. The data from San Francisco is proving that he's right.
As the recession continues and perhaps even deepens, it is difficult not to wonder about the next cycle. It appears that the economy will continue to ...
The dismal unemployment report released last week inspired renewed interest in a second economic stimulus, and economists, from Krugman to Feldstein, have led the charge for another injection.
It astonishes me to see how quickly this country has embraced a socialist mentality and how readily it has accepted the belief that the source of our problems was an unfettered free market.
The economy has absolutely not been "measurably worse than anyone expected." It has been pretty much following exactly the course that some of us predicted.
If you think you're going to get rich investing in the stock market, you are a victim of the biggest investing con.
The truth is that, aside from those periods when conditions and markets have set out a relatively easy path for central bankers to follow, the Federal Reserve has not lived up to its mission or its promise.
Greening all of the world's businesses and our consumer habits through the economic signals of the marketplace will not change the energy base of civilization from fossil fuel.
If we all weren't so afraid of big, bad government, we'd realize the obvious: expanding the public sector is the most efficient way both to create jobs and stimulate the economy.
Forget the Jackson 5, this was the weekend for the Palin 5.
Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that his state "will skip directly to 2011." California faces a projected $26.3 billion budget deficit, and the state's controller began handing out IOUs last week.
Offering CEOs big money to come and run companies does not guarantee great leadership. In fact, the practice may attract the wrong leaders altogether.
We have never been more reliant on the generosity of others and less able to act like grown-ups and fend for ourselves than any time since the Revolution.
She is not a narcissist. She just has the good sense to realize she is better and more deserving than most people to rule the planet and prepare humanity for the end of days.
Several events of the past week should be a wake-up call to the Obama administration. The bottom line: the medicine isn't working. Stronger stuff is needed.
Enough already of all those silly, unduly sunny and unrealistic economic predictions that are proving to be as accurate as those woefully inept forecasts we get from the local weatherman.
Lets look at something really Goofy about work and summer vacations. They say the average household income is $48,000 so, IF as a paid vacation, its...
It seems like common sense that the government should increase social spending when people are losing their jobs, but Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats don't see it that way.
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I guess that means we are # 11 from the bottom....
The Chinese government really does not want its people to prosper. If that happened, the Chinese government could be overthrown. China is set up to oppress its workers and put the wealth that they generate into the hands of the government oligarchy.
US is going to lead the world out of recession?
How is that going to happen when the middle class does not have disposable income?
Another asset bubble and more schemes to get them in debt and transfer more money to the uber rich and banks?
Good to see Africa growing, China is entering the African and South American markets big time.
there's the 'whole economic bucket' for a country, and then there are regional effects and class distribution.
paying attention to the 'whole bucket', the thrust of this u.s. news article, as well as nearly all articles in the mass media, ignores fundamentals like the plundering of the middle class.
iow, even if you're in a country that's doing relatively well, who would care if your family/community is not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkFb26u9g8
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