The Monstrous Amount of Financial Derivatives Today

By: Friday April 9, 2010 1:45 pm

The total amount potential obligations represented by financial derivatives today is approximately one million dollars for every living American.

Sarah Palin on Health Care Reform: A Modest Proposal

By: Sunday October 5, 2008 6:52 pm

I’ve spent a good portion of my life working to measure and improve health care quality, so I was very interested to hear what Sarah Palin had to say about the McCain-Palin solution to our health care crisis. It seems that she and her running mate have developed a perfect solution not only for our too costly health care system, but also for all those other financial crises with which our nation is beset. It’s called the budget neutral tax credit, and it puts financial derivatives to shame.

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