…the prices your insurance company pays are based on a set of values listed in a phone-book sized directory of billing codes. Those codes are pretty much the economic hierarchy of modern medicine… And those values are set by a closed-door committee of the American Medical Association. At the Marketplace Health Desk at WHYY, Gregory…
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Geithner’s Ploy: Saving U.S. Banks at Taxpayer Expense, Once Again
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By Michael HudsonU.S. and foreign stockmarkets continue to zigzag wildly in response to expectations about whether theeuro can survive, in the face of populations suffering under neoliberalausterity policies being imposed on Ireland, Greece, Spain, Ita…
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The Fed Loses Cred
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
In the midst of the global financial crisis in 2008, the Federal Reserve lent Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Royal Bank of Scotland at least $30 billion each at interest rates as low as 0.01 percent with no public disclosure of the details, Bloomb…
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Experts suspect official cover-up over radiation leaks
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Japan radiation leaks feared as nuclear experts point to possible cover-up
Nuclear experts have thrown doubt on the accuracy of official information issued about the Fukushima nuclear accident, saying that it followed a pattern of secrecy and cover-u…
