May 2010 Blog Posts (183)

There has been much talk and many articles written since Cap & Trade was introduced in Congress. As many have said before, I feel it is more fair to call this the Cap & Tax Plan. Is this something that we, as Americans, should be concerned? If you pay utility bills (electric, gas, etc.), you should be.

To keep this as simple as possible, Cap & Tax is designed to deal with Climate Change / Global Warming. Each…

The Obama administration is obviously feeling intense heat over its incompetent response to the BP oil leak, so ahead of his press conference this afternoon, it unveiled its first in-house scapegoat:

The head of the beleaguered federal agency that regulates offshore drilling…

Bad news issued today by the nation's most-recognized hurricane forecasting agency:

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued its 2010 hurricane season forecast, predicting one of the strongest seasons on record -- and reiterating fears that the Gulf oil spill may be impacted by the severe weather....…

The Washington Times today updates Climategate's spawn, NASAgate, as the space agency's response to FOIA-filer Chris Horner (who is also EPA's and NOAA's hunk o' burnin' love) has lagged, dragged and sagged for nearly three years.…

You may have seen our Health Care News footage of Donald Berwick last week on television, but if you missed it, you can find it here. Dr. Berwick is Obama’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, essentially the world’s second-largest insurance company, and he is a cheerleader for government-run health care and rationing, particularly when describing his love affair with Britain’s National Health Service. As we noted in Health Care…

On a daily basis, I hear many talking about the Interest we pay on our US Government Debt. However, there is one thought that always occurs to me. What about paying the Principal?

In Banking, there is on old adage, "a rolling loan has no loss". This has been used to describe a single payment loan (borrow money for a term of one-year) and when the loan matures, just "roll" the interest that is due on the loan into a new loan. With this strategy, one can never pay off their debt…

By SCOTT GOTTLIEB

President Obama guaranteed Americans that after health reform became law they could keep their insurance plans and their doctors. It's clear that this promise cannot be kept. Insurers and physicians are already reshaping their businesses as a result of Mr. Obama's plan.

The health-reform law caps how much insurers…