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As a Libertarian, I used to think as Friedman did. Friedman is talking here of the "free enterprise"* solution to unaffordable medical care costs. He is speaking of the evils of what economists now call "regulatory capture." I think he is correct in regard to regulatory capture. If, in the...

Thank you!

Having a mentally deranged President is bad enough. Why do you have to continually remind us of how bad America's public education has become?

the ACLU has been surprisingly unbiased and true to their mission of defending civil liberties. I will send them a big check with a thank you note.

With all due respect :rolleyes:, that's pure Wallstreet-media bullshit! What makes a stock go up is people buying it. You see it going up, you by it. Right now, of course, everyone wants to get in before the deficit driven inflation hits and really gooses the market. They buy, the market...

If I had to guess, based only on my understanding of human nature (as a human, I'm an expert on the topic) I'd say there is a reason beyond what meets the eye for this Grassley Graham epistle. . What's puzzling is the love affair between The Donald, Grassley and Little Miss Lindsey. Lindsey...

Actually the detailed studies of overall health care quality show the U.S. lagging all the other industrialized nations, despite the U.S. ~100% higher cost than the next most costly care (Switzerland) . People don't recognize that despite higher cost in the U.S. the same problems crop up in the...

Discussion with supporting data of myriad other factors, though certainly far less than "thousands," are the subject of Piketty's and his student's Study and Book. Piketty is by no means the only economist interested in wealth disparity. He's brought the subject up to date in a thorough, well...

I completely agree that this, specifically in the U.S., would be an effective means of partially ameliorating the ill effects of extreme wealth disparity. It would have relatively negligible effect on the wealthy, a large beneficial effect on the middle class, and be simplifying with regard to...

You may be getting ahead of your skis here.

Guys, there is a comprehensive study of this topic and the findings are summarized in a new book, "Capital in the 21st Century" , by Thomas Piketty. Wealth disparity is a normal consequence of the return on capital being greater than the economic growth rate. Some policies accelerate the rate...

The folks in line at the soup kitchen are going to be cheered by this. If only they were able to read what you have written, they would blow you a big kiss. Thanks for posting.

fair enough. First, we have to know what you mean by "polls driven by news media", if you mean polls on CNN, Fox news, or Yahoo, etc, where they add up the number of call-in votes or clicks for this or that candidate, well of course we all agree those types of polls are entertaining but not...

I have never seen a professional polling organizations claim such a thing in those words without qualification. They all know that they are polling for the popular vote and usually use words such as likely winner etc., which is correct. They might even go so far as saying "the likely winner of...

By election day, since the 1948 election when the polling stopped prematurely with a couple weeks to go before the election, the polls, when taken in aggregate, have been correct with regard to picking the winner of the popular vote -- Amazingly accurate! They've called the winner of the...

You lunatics are not even good at disinformation. Where do you come up with this crap. Nixon's rating was over 60% by election day 1972, and the polls, which only poll for popular vote and not the electoral college vote, were right on the money, just as they were in the 2016 election. Is it...

Never a problem here on ET. Go right ahead with it.

Why is "pedo" being omitted?

Ha ha ha, Fox news, certainly a very reliable source and expert in sexual harassment I would say, wouldn't you? The only source I can think of that would be even more reliable is that group of Russian Hackers operating out of a St. Petersburg hotel room. Let's just wait until at least one of...