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Estimated returns from the MLR (administrative costs to medical costs)

{ Posted on Apr 16 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : ACA, All, Angry Bear, Bruce Webb, health insurance costs, MLR
Bruce Webb on Angry Bear was among the first of bloggers to point out that this aspect of the Medical Loss Ratio begins in 2009 and  here and points again to the MLR as it comes into play. A non-profit group ...Read More »

Romney Let’s Mask Slip

{ Posted on Apr 16 2012 by Robert }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear
Garrett Haake reports Via TPM PALM BEACH, FL — Mitt Romney went well beyond his standard stump speech at a closed-door fundraiser on Sunday evening, and offered some of the most specific details to date about the policies he would pursue if ...Read More »

Romney Let’s Mask Slip

{ Posted on Apr 16 2012 by Robert }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear
Garrett Haake reports Via TPM PALM BEACH, FL — Mitt Romney went well beyond his standard stump speech at a closed-door fundraiser on Sunday evening, and offered some of the most specific details to date about the policies he would pursue if ...Read More »

El-Erian on the Fed, Money Market Funds and Traders Puzzles me

{ Posted on Apr 15 2012 by Robert }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear
I don't understand what Mohammad El-Erian is saying here. I do entirely sympathise with this a professor ...advised me that, in order to maximize the probability of success, I should ... Make sure to cover issues where I know more than those ...Read More »

El-Erian on the Fed, Money Market Funds and Traders Puzzles me

{ Posted on Apr 15 2012 by Robert }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear
I don't understand what Mohammad El-Erian is saying here. I do entirely sympathise with this a professor ...advised me that, in order to maximize the probability of success, I should ... Make sure to cover issues where I know more than those ...Read More »

American Enterprise Institute Economists Redux

{ Posted on Apr 15 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : AEI, All, Angry Bear, bad economics, economic growth, federal taxes, top marginal rates
by Mike Kimel American Enterprise Institute Economists Redux The other day I wrote a post about economists at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a prominent conservative think-tank. The post began with this paragraph from a story in the NY Times Politicians sometimes ...Read More »

Guest post: U.S. has 18th best unemployment benefits in OECD

{ Posted on Apr 14 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Kenneth Thomas, safety net, unemployment benefits
Guest post by Kenneth Thomas of Middle Class Political Economist U.S. has 18th best unemployment benefits in OECD; also trails 13 non-OECD countries Tim Vlandas at EU Welfare States flags some important recent International Monetary Fund data on the generosity of a ...Read More »

Open thread April 13, 2012

{ Posted on Apr 13 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, open thread
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Open thread April 13, 2012

{ Posted on Apr 13 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Another Look at Wealth and Consumption – Pt 2

{ Posted on Apr 12 2012 by Jazzbumpa }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, consumption, income, jazzbumpa
Correlations and Slopes Over Time In Part 1, we looked at the ratio of consumption spending to net worth, and how it changed over time.  This time we'll look at the correlation between net worth and consumption. Here is the big picture: ...Read More »
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