Tag Archives: Unemployment

Bingo in the Boardroom

This entry was posted in LAMENT FOR DESTINY'S CHILD and tagged Bank of America Corporate Governance Corruption Income Inequality Influence Peddling Institutional Investors Lobbying Unemployment on by .

Go down the S&P 500 list and ask any CEO, where is the Magna Carta in their corporate charters for “the freedom of speech that was the right of Englishmen”?  (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Supreme Court of the United States, 129 S. Ct. 2893 on June 29, 2009)  Corporate governance is no more […]

Health Care’s Affliction of American Prosperity

This entry was posted in EPI-DEMON-OMICS and tagged Competetive Market Dynamics Economic Growth GDP Health Care Hospital Monopolies Influence Peddling Medical Insurance Medical Lobby Medical Providers Non-Profit Institutions Physicians Unemployment on by .

Skyrocketing medical costs are a drain on national prosperity, a drag on employment and a damper on economic growth prospects.  “Since the start of the recession in December 2007, real health care spending…has increased by 12.7%…During this same period, real GDP excluding health spending fell by nearly 7% in mid-2009 and, with its recent decline, […]