The People Who Brought You healthcare.gov Put Medicare Billing Records Online by Michael Gorback, M.D. • Sep 30, 2014 • 8 Comments With predictable consequences.
How Hospitals and Health Insurers Collude at Your Expense by Michael Gorback, M.D. • Sep 16, 2014 • 25 Comments Doctor’s insight: Bookies call it the “vig,” insurance companies call it a “PPO Repricing Fee.” It allows them to go around state insurance laws.
Luxury Homes Are Hot, Rest of Housing Market Gets Hosed by Wolf Richter • Sep 11, 2014 • 4 Comments Sweet Spot: Homes above $15 million.
Ravenous Costs and Dubious Benefits of a College Degree by Contributor • Sep 10, 2014 • 12 Comments She’ll be 55 before her net life-time earnings equal those of an enterprising person who left school at 16.
Subprime Blows up on Retailer, CEO Warns on ALL Subprime, Hits Auto Sales by Wolf Richter • Sep 3, 2014 • 10 Comments Subprime giveth, subprime taketh away.
Consumer Spending in August Drops below a Year Ago – Gallup by Wolf Richter • Sep 2, 2014 • Comments Off on Consumer Spending in August Drops below a Year Ago – Gallup Hapless American consumers appear to have hit a limit.
What the Heck Just Happened at the San Francisco Apple Store? by Wolf Richter • Aug 29, 2014 • 9 Comments Not everyone is irrationally exuberant.
This Economy Is Ruined For Everyone by WOLF STREET Reader • Aug 21, 2014 • 72 Comments Reader speaks up: Sensible people at all income levels are altering their behavior to be ready for what may happen.
This Chart Is a True Picture of What’s Dragging on the American Economy by Wolf Richter • Aug 20, 2014 • 11 Comments Over the long run (which is now), the math of that distortion just doesn’t work out.
Investment Bank Discovers the “Redistributive Effects” of QE by Wolf Richter • Jul 28, 2014 • 2 Comments How the Fed and other central banks channel wealth and income to rich households and companies at the expense of wage earners and the young.
