Jun 1 2016

Geriatric America: 13 percent of US workforce now employed by healthcare industry. Healthcare inflation out of control.

Like most industrialized countries the United States has a large number of people entering into old age.  The baby boomer generation is living longer and just because life expectancy is extended, this doesn’t mean people are healthier if we measure quality of life.  We have a major problem with obesity and all the implications that […]

Jun 18 2010

FDIC flashes code red – Banking system insolvent and expecting more bank failures. Since 2008 247 banks with $616 billion in assets have failed. History of Federal Reserve designed to protect the big banks.

The FDIC which technically supports the nation’s banking system is for all practical purposes insolvent.  I’m not sure the magnitude of this problem has sunk into the psyche of the American public.  The FDIC insures accounts at banks that include checking, saving, and CD accounts from a bank failure.  This has occurred with regular frequency […]

May 20 2010

FDIC next government trillion dollar bailout? Since January of 2000 to October of 2007 we had 27 bank failures. From January 2008 to May 2010 the FDIC has closed down 237 banks. Why 1,000 bank failures will occur before the Great Recession is over.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will be the next billion and possibly trillion dollar government bailout.  We have the FDIC that insures over 8,000 banks with an insurance fund that is in the negative.  From 2000 to October of 2007 only 27 banks were closed down by the FDIC.  Nearly eight full years and […]

Mar 13 2010

Middle Class Americans Losing Financial Ground on Retirement – As Stock Market Rebounds more Middle Class Americans Have Less Money and Fewer Jobs. How is Health Care Spending Boosting GDP a Good Thing?

As more and more data is released on this Great Recession it is becoming abundantly clear that we have two tracks people are following.  On one track where most travel, we have middle class Americans dealing with the highest unemployment in a generation while seeing their net worth dissolve.  On the other side of the […]

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