Health Care Premiums: Bend Over ‘n Brace Yourself
I guess we might soon expect Ben Bernanke and his pals at the Federal Reserve to discount the cost of health care from the core...
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Labor Torpedoes Immigration Reform
Can you have immigration reform without a viable worker visa program? I...hink...hat most would answer no. Without a scheme...hat provides guest workers sufficient...o meet...he needs...
EU Antitrust Authorities Eyeing Apple iPhone Accords, Report
European Union [EU] antitrust regulators are looking into documents submitted by a group of European telecom-carriers over antitrust fears, a media report on Thursday said....
Deposit Taxes: Should We Prepare?
There’s no way it could happen in the United States. That’s the conventional wisdom on this side of the pond about the ECB’s bailout of...
Missing the Forest For the Trees: Cyprus Edition
The Cyprus bank heist has received a lot of coverage, but in most cases the analysis is missing the forest for the trees. The real...
Retail Stocks Showing Possible Consumer Retreat
Everyone knows that consumer spending keeps the economy running in the United States. If the consumer decreases their spending, the economy will usually come to...
Stocks Going “Hungary” in Italy
A few months ago, I talked about how a financial transactions tax can have significant unintended consequences. Using Hungary as an example, I said that...
Apple’s Stock Gets a Rare Upgrade
On the day that Samsung launched its most anticipated smartphone, BTIG’s Walter...iecyk — one of the first analysts to downgrade Apple (AAPL)’s stock last year...
Germany: The Price of Stability?
My colleague, Fernando Martin, has an interesting chart that plots the real per capita...DP of five industrialized countries since 1991: (click to enlarge) The data...
Defense Contractors Begin to ‘Warn’ of Mass Layoffs
Few defense contractors are among the companies announcing layoffs and plant closures in the Old Dominion. But that doesn’t mean cuts aren’t coming. “Everyone is...