…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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Charles Hugh Smith
When Does This Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham Finally End?
by Charles Hugh Smith • • 0 Comments
Intersecting global crises cannot be papered over with artifice and propaganda for long.
We all know the Status Quo’s response to the global financial meltdown of 2008 has been a travesty of a mockery of a sham–smoke and mirrors, flimsy facades o…
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NY Times Puff Piece On Japan Covers Up A Sham
by Lee Adler • • 1 Comment
An opinion piece in Sunday’s New York times does the rah rah for the apparent successes of the Japanese economy over the past 20 years. DESPITE some small signs of optimism about the United States economy, unemployment is still high, and the country seems stalled. Time and again, Americans are told to look to Japan as a…
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Mr. Parasite Goes To Washington
by Cody Penn Dent • • 6 Comments
We all know the story. An energetic, successful person from industry sets off to use his skills as a reform minded public servant. Voters’ imaginations are captured by the opportunity to have someone of proven ability transform government, forge better policy and make it more effective at spending our resources. Now we know the sadistically…
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Bank Dividends Are a Sham and a Con
by Lee Adler • • 3 Comments
After taking 3 of 4 days off between March 10 and March 15 the Fed resumed daily pumping last week, and is scheduled to continue pumping about $25 billion a week into the market through April 11. Along with that the market will be getting the benefit of $25 billion a week in Supplementary Financing…
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Play It Again Sham- Professional Edition
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
Little change in the market results in little change in the indicator picture. Click here to download complete report in pdf format (Professional Edition Subscribers). Try the Professional Edition risk free for thirty days. If, within that time, you do…
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Play It Again Sham- Professional Edition
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Little change in the market results in little change in the indicator picture. Click here to download complete report in pdf format (Professional Edition Subscribers). Try the Professional Edition risk free for thirty days. If, within that time, you don’t find the information useful, I will give you a full refund. It’s that simple. Click…
