Archive for November, 2011

-- Featured Comments -- Michael, with full disclosure, I operate a multi-diagnostic imaging center (mammography, x-ray, ultrasound, bone density, MRI, & CT) We (Independents) were cut ~35% under the Budget Reconciliation and Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Many independents went under some having been in business over 20 years. Images had to be transferred; patients More

-- Featured Comments -- Very dumb article and I am an economics major from a top university and now work for a tax-paying corporation in finance (i.e., I have a Phd in the real world). Government spending must be financed either by taxes, which kill jobs, or borrowing, which crowds out investment in the private sector and kills jobs. Fiscal spending was viewed More

-- Featured Comments -- Did your econ class tell you that monopolies who work in industries with perfectly inelastic demand curves can raise prices to infinity and not see a decrease in demand? That is until the market falls apart completely and no one can purchase the item.Follow the money and here's why. Demand for Internet is becoming highly inelastic, i.e. More

-- Featured Comments -- David, it's not "the Capitalists" who are sending jobs overseas, it's just human beings. It's you and me. It is exactly what any human being will do when faced with competitive pressure. We simply don't live in a closed system. The head of Pottery Barn doesn't want his or her company to fail when faced with the same items selling for less More

-- Featured Comments -- ,"The situation here is very much governed by the regional events," says Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, part of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank. "The country is divided as it is and people are taking positions."' Does this guy get paid for uttering such drivel?Frankly, I'm More

-- Featured Comments -- Everyone is Entitled to a "Fair Trial". LTC Lakin is a Great American Hero and a True Patriot. Our Beloved Constitution really Matters. Remember the oath of office all our government employees including our military have taken: To protect the Constitution of the United States of America against ALL enemies Foreign and Domestic! Obama More

-- Featured Comments -- Josh, reading comprehension will serve you well should you ever learn it. Under in situ processing (which employs drilling + fracturing as described in this editorial): "However, in-situ processes do involve possible significant environmental costs to aquifers, especially since in-situ methods may require ice-capping or some other form of More

-- Featured Comments -- Again there is no mention of provider price transparency. The cost of the procedure is taken as a given. It is possible that all prices in healthcare are arbitrary. For example, the cost of self-adminestered drugs received during a hospital stay can carry a price equivalent to the simulated hourly compensation rate of a neurosurgeon. Take More

-- Featured Comments -- Your comment, although right, is of the type politicians use; philosophical but non committal, as if there should be no way of stopping the trend of displacing "inefficient humans", consequently reducing jobs and the eventual value of human services. A good example should be the area of translators; where translating software is replacing More

-- Featured Comments -- I think Walt might want to check on whether the upgrade version will work for the XP upgrade to Windows 7 as suggested. My understanding is that XP user's must first wipe their hard drive before installing 7 - so it seems unlikely that the upgrade version of 7 will "see" the XP product key to support the upgrade to 7 should the hard drive More