Submitted by CARPE DIEM

LA Times–Consulting your family physician is finally moving into the 21st century and out of the doctor’s office. Since the dawn of e-mail, patients have been pleading for more doctors to offer medical advice online. No traffic jams, no long waits, no germ-infested offices with outdated magazines and bad elevator music.
There was […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

A few weeks ago, I posted about commercial bank loans being at a record high of $760 billion in early January, based on weekly Federal Reserve banking data for large commercial banks. The updated chart above (click to enlarge) reflects a few more weeks of banking data, and this time shows the […]

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Submitted by Businomics Blog
Today’s Wall Street Journal has columns by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s advisors. In a post last week I chided Mitt Romney for glib generalities. Now Clinton gives us the opposite extreme: government by laundry list. Remember some of the awful State of the Union speeches, in which […]

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Submitted by Businomics Blog
Nike has implemented a major change in strategy, according to an interesting article in Forbes Magazine.
The company had previously advertised with a mass market focus. Its “swoosh” logo was everywhere, as was it’s great motto, “Just do it.”
The new approach focuses on specific sports markets: running, golf, soccer, etc. Rather than […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

Parade Magazine–Last month, Congress passed a 3,500-page omnibus spending bill after less than 24 hours for review. The bill, which mostly renewed funding for existing programs, contained more than 9,000 “earmarks”—worth at least $7.4 billion—for legislators’ pet projects, including:
Olive fruit fly research in France: $213,000
Center for Grape Genetics in Geneva, N.Y.: $1.9 […]

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Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Taxes are forever topical, especially in an election year, particularly one in which big ideas about government programs, old and new, are increasingly front and center. Government action, of course, means government spending, which in turn leads to the inevitable question: Who’s going to pay for it?
With that backdrop we offer […]

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Sports Illustrated–For the fourth straight year, Sports Illustrated set out to rank the 50 top-earning American athletes (taking into account on and off the field income), and it’s no surprise to see the familiar names at the top of the list (see chart above, click to enlarge). The most obvious? Tiger Woods […]

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