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A lotta Obama, a little of everything else. Responses to “Make McCain Dynamic”. Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Letter to Krugman: Interest Rates.
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Accounting Tricks | T.A.N.K.
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A lotta Obama, a little of everything else. The Knowledge Power of Lobbyists. Letter to Krugman: Interest Rates. April 2, 2010. Here is another example of an accounting trick. 1) Corporations get taxpayer money for no good reason. 2) It turns out that health care was already paid for by the government but just funneled through corporations. Here’s the main point…. Evidently the Obama administration and its allies in Congress disagree with that decision, for included in the recently passed health-reform b...
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The Knowledge Power of Lobbyists | T.A.N.K.
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A lotta Obama, a little of everything else. It’s ok, I’m sure Lehman Brothers is the exception. The Knowledge Power of Lobbyists. March 28, 2010. Why are lobbyists so powerful? I propose an alternative, complementary thesis. In addition to the promise/threat of influencing voters, lobbyists use their resources to. Acquire and disseminate knowledge amongst elites. In particular, I suggest that effective lobbyists deploy their resources to do (at least) the following:. From the point of view of the lobbyis...
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A lotta Obama, a little of everything else. February 12, 2010. I mentioned that I was unsure whether my USC student health plan (provided by Anthem Blue Cross) would cover these tests. Our doctor told us the tests would cost around $250. We decided to go ahead with the tests. All’s well that ends well, right? Anthem and Genzyme have an ongoing relationship that includes a contract and numerous transactions. This makes it possible for them to manipulate the pricing of services such that patients pay t...
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A lotta Obama, a little of everything else. Letter to Krugman: Interest Rates. October 27, 2011. Back after a long hiatus. Years ago I worked with an individual who alerted me to the difference between what he called “value creating” and “value claiming.” I think he may have learned these concepts at Harvard Business School, but I am not sure. Anyway, I think they are very apropos to many of the issues and debates raised by the Occupy Wall Street movement. Often in these team oriented sports there is no ...
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A lotta Obama, a little of everything else. TANK C.L.A.S.S.I.C. Responses to “A.R.C.H.I.V.E.S.”. Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out.
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Letter to Krugman: Interest Rates | T.A.N.K.
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A lotta Obama, a little of everything else. Letter to Krugman: Interest Rates. May 21, 2010. In reference to his column today. Dear Dr. Krugman,. This may be a naive point of view. It seems to me that, in the long run, the economy is a function of the knowledge accumulated and distributed within the society. Growth occurs because new techniques are learned and disseminated. The economy suffers when bad techniques are learned and dissseminated. For example, rates have been low for at least a decade. T...
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It’s ok, I’m sure Lehman Brothers is the exception | T.A.N.K.
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A lotta Obama, a little of everything else. The Knowledge Power of Lobbyists. It’s ok, I’m sure Lehman Brothers is the exception. March 12, 2010. The NYT reports that Lehman used accounting tricks to appear solvent. Repos, short for repurchase agreements, are a standard practice on Wall Street, representing short-term loans that provide sometimes crucial financing. In them, firms essentially lend assets to other firms in exchange for money for short periods of time, sometimes overnight. The revelation of...
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A Healthcare Solution | T.A.N.K.
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A lotta Obama, a little of everything else. It’s ok, I’m sure Lehman Brothers is the exception. March 5, 2010. 1 Doctors identify the most lucrative services and organize their practices around delivering those. 2 Insurers identify ways to minimize the dollars they pay out. They try to attract healthy people and dump sick people. The upshot is that my co-op gets a return on its investment for making me healthy regardless of whether I stick with them. If I stick with them, they get the low costs in th...
