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  • Could overhaul undermine employer health coverage?
    Oct 24, 2010  - WASHINGTON (AP) - The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage for generations. But last week a leading manufacturer told workers their costs will jump partly because of the law. Also, a Democratic governor laid out a sc... More
  • ObamaCare, for Some
    Oct 20, 2010  -  Well, well. In the clearest evidence so far that ObamaCare is harmful in practice and an election-year liability, the Obama Administration has decided not to enforce some of the law's "consumer protections." At least when the results are politically embarrassing. Over the last several weeks the He... More
  • McDonald's May Drop Health Plan
    Sep 29, 2010  - McDonald's Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could drop its health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the U.S. health overhaul. The move is one of the clearest indications that new rules may disrupt workers' health pla... More
  • 'Consumers Are Paralyzed' Over Tax Doubt
    Sep 24, 2010  - Congress halted plans to pass a major tax bill before the November elections, leaving taxpayers and financial advisers unsure of how to plan for the future. One of three scenarios face Congress when it returns from the election recess: It will extend all of the Bush tax cuts of 2001, which expire t... More
  • Economists Urge Extension of All Tax Rates
    Sep 20, 2010  -   NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- With income tax rates set to go up on Dec. 31, Congress is hotly debating what to do next. But most economists agree: Keep them where they are. One option, to let the tax cuts passed during the Bush administration expire for only the richest 3% of taxpayers while r... More
  • NYT Editorial Cautions Against China Currency Legislation
    Sep 17, 2010  - It is clear that China is going to keep manipulating its currency — and crowding out every other exporter — until the world pushes back. So it was good to hear Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaking out this week on Capitol Hill, warning that an undervalued Chinese currency “makes it more diff... More
  • Washington Times Opinion: Renewing hope for the American dream
    Sep 3, 2010  - As our economy meanders down the road to recovery, yet to hit its stride, the American dream slides out of reach for too many. Nearly one in 10 Americans can't find work. If you consider those who have given up looking or settled for part-time work, that number jumps to nearly one in five. Things... More
  • Uncertainty of Bush tax cuts affects hiring, study states
    Sep 2, 2010  - Congress' inability to make a decision about the fate of Bush-era tax cuts is contributing to the unemployment crisis facing the country, according to the Labor Day 2010 report by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). "Small businesses are America's job creators, responsible for 60 perce... More
  • Bury Keynesian Voodoo Before It Can Bury Us All
    Aug 23, 2010  - Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Initial claims for unemployment benefits surged to 500,000 in mid-August, a level more typical of a recession than a recovery. The bad news confirmed what conservative economists have been saying for some time: The biggest Keynesian stimulus in U.S. history was a bust. Incred... More
  • Medicare's rosy health*
    Aug 10, 2010  - Every year, Medicare trustees deliver an impenetrable report that answers a single headline-worthy question: How soon will Medicare run out of money? Last year, the trustees estimated that one part of Medicare would be insolvent alarmingly soon — 2017. But then came the new health care law, sold to... More