Opinion
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MF Global Liquidation Trustee Notes Chaos, Surge in Transfers
Opinion -MF Global Inc. had a shortfall in customer-segregated funds beginning on Oct. 26, 2011, and that shortfall grew until the broker-dealer’s bankruptcy filing five days later, according to a preliminary report by James W. -
Deposit Account News: Savings, Checking, CD Rates Drop Another 3 percent
Opinion -Savings The average savings account rate in the United States decreased by more than 3 percent in January, from 0.266 percent in January to 0.257 percent in February. -
Climate Change Weekly – Battle of the Wall Street Journal
Opinion -Global warming alarmists are up in arms about the Wall Street Journal publishing a letter from 16 scientists explaining there is “no need to panic about global warming. -
Insider Trading Charges Criticized as Ill-Defined and Harmful to Markets
Opinion -Federal charges filed in late January against a “criminal club” of investors who made money trading on insider information has raised the issue of what, exactly, is insider trading and whether it should be a crime. -
Is the Privacy of the American Student at Risk?
Opinion -School: A place where children learn to read and write. A place where they learn mathematics, science and history. Moreover, a place, away from home, where children are supposed to be safe. -
SOPA Strike Erodes Congressional Support for Anti-Piracy Bills
Opinion -The January 18 blackout of Wikipedia, Reddit, and other Web sites in protest of the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act and its sister bill in the Senate, the Protect IP Act, prompted several legislators to withdraw their support for the bills. -
South Carolina Insurance Director Resigns With No Official Explanation
Opinion -David Black has resigned as director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance, the department announced in a media advisory. No reason was given for Black’s departure, which comes just 11 months after he was named to the post by Gov. Nikki Haley (R). -
FCC: Anderson Cooper’s New Chat Show “News Program”
Opinion -The Hollywood Reporter reported in December that Anderson, the daytime syndicated talk show hosted by Anderson Cooper, has been classified as a news program by the Federal Communications Commission. -
Danish Researchers: No Link Between Cell Phones and Brain Cancer
Opinion -The British Medical Journal published a study conducted by scientific researchers at the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark that concludes there is no link between cell phones and brain cancer. -
Maryland County Plans Government-Run News Site
Opinion -Montgomery County, Maryland, located just north of Washington, DC, has announced an ambitious plan to start a government-funded news Web site in 2012. -
Analysis: Obama Administration Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
Opinion -On Cyber Monday, the most searched item on eBay was the iPad. The second most searched item? The iPhone 4S. The third? The iPod Touch. Over at PayPal, mobile payments were up 552 percent from last year. -
Consumer Power Report: A Guide to Obamacare Repeal
Opinion -One of the enduring questions asked by and of opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care law is how they plan to go about repealing the matter. -
Internet Copyright Protection Bills Threaten ISPs, Web Sites, Users
Opinion -Two bills intended to stem digital piracy of movies, software, and music are winding their way through both houses of the Congress. House Resolution 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, was debated November 16 in the House Judiciary Committee. -
California Environment Law Abused to Thwart Competition
Opinion -The Los Angeles Times published an outstanding article today documenting how California developers are using environmental laws to thwart competition. -
Consumer Power Report: How Much Are You Costing Society?
Opinion -A story in the Wall Street Journal caught my attention recently, concerning a taxpayer-funded Centers for Disease Control-backed study on the cost of drinking to society. Heavy boozers cost the U.S. -
Consumer Power Report: Don’t Go Exchanging
Opinion -In the latest edition of Health Care News, we report on information that provides every incentive for states to reconsider their current positions in regards to the health insurance exchanges mandated by President Barack Obama’s law. -
Are Administrative Costs Evil?
Opinion -Most health policy wonks do not seem to be bothered by bureaucracy in any field other than health care. -
Obama Administration Sues to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Opinion -AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile hit a major roadblock August 31, when the U.S. -
Analysis: Here Comes the Price Controls
Opinion -The central conceit of the Obama administration's approach to health care policy has been that a strongly worded chiding or a public shaming is all that is needed to keep insurance rates low. -
In Oklahoma, Another Governor Decides Against PPACA Exchange
Opinion -Good news from Oklahoma, where Gov. Mary Fallin decided against the deployment of a state health care exchange. The Washington Times reports: Under pressure from conservatives, the Republican governor declined a $54 million grant from the U.S. -
Consumer Driven Health Plans and Better Health
Opinion -The key basis of the emphasis on consumer driven health plans as a solution for rising health care costs is that consumers will make better decisions if they function as partners in controlling costs, as opposed to merely accepting top-down rationing of -
Study: Medicaid and CHIP Fail to Provide Reliable Access in Illinois
Opinion -The access to health care granted by the federal government’s Medicaid and CHIP programs is largely insufficient to meet the demands of the population it purports to serve, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. -
Study Calls Baltimore’s State Center Project a $127 Million Handout
Opinion -The first phase of the State Center project in Baltimore represents a $127 million giveaway of taxpayer dollars, with hundreds of millions of dollars more likely to be handed out, according to a recent report from the Maryland Public Policy Institute and -
Analysis: Massachusetts Shows Why Price Controls Can’t Stop Premium Hikes
Opinion -Kaiser headlines a a story today surveying health insurance premium levels throughout the country as "health premium costs vary widely" But the reality when you read the referenced report shows that premiums are overwhelmingly more expensive in the solid