by James Murray • • Comments Off on Why Fast-Food Workers Are An Endangered Species
By James Murray: 30 years ago, if you’d told me I’d go to a fast-food joint, order on a tablet, and eat a machine-made burger, I would have said, “No way.” And today?
by David Stockman • • Comments Off on The Hazardous Hunt For Carry – Why The EM Rebound Isn’t Real
The monetary plumbers keep banging money market rates to zero, thereby ignoring what the money market rate really is in a financialized, debt-ridden system: the price of hot money, the single most important price in all of capitalism.
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Russia Dumping US Treasuries? But Why the Heck in Belgium?
Belgium is known for its surprises. For example, it got by amazingly well for a couple of years without a national government, to the chagrin of a lot of people. Now that tiny country with a tiny economy is suddenly piling up a mountain of US Treasuries.
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on France Thumbs Nose at Obama Over Sanctions: Will Deliver Two Warships to Russia
The battle between the US and France has been brewing for months, but now it came to a head: the French government decided to spite the US and move forward with the contract to deliver two warships to Russia. To heck with those silly sanctions.
by David Stockman • • Comments Off on Why China Will Implode: It’s A Monumental Building Aberration, Not An Economy
China isn’t just another booming Emerging Market economy trying to cool down excesses in fixed-asset investment and transition to a consumer-based economy. That notion is an odd-confluence of propaganda from Beijing and hopium from Wall Street.
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Russian Bank Lures German Savers As Russians Yank Out Money
Smart Russians are voting with their bank accounts, dumping rubles at the fastest rate since the financial crisis, and yanking dollars and euros out of banks at a record pace. So where do the teetering banks go to refill these holes? Where the dumb money is: German savers.
by Michael Gorback, M.D. • • Comments Off on The Sheer Insanity of What You Pay For Medical Services
By Michael Gorback, M.D.:Confused and outraged by the prices, often unknown upfront, that you and your insurance company pay for medical services? You’re not the only one. Enter the bizarre world of “Place of Service” pricing.
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