Uh-Oh, Spaghetti-O’s….
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
In the span of about 6-9 months we’ve gone from caution about the housing market, to downright gloom and bubbles bursting, to a recovery according to Business Week. This has to be the fastest real estate cycle ever. Or, could it be overzealous reporters selectively using data to perpetuate a fear to create a story? You be the judge. They keep mowing them down, building bigger and selling in my neighborhood even with all the speculation going on. Did anyone ever think building cracker box houses in the Arizona desert was sustainable?
john stossel reports on the idea i’ve floated here a few times about the problem with employer payed health insurance. he uses a nice analogy:
Suppose you had grocery insurance. With your employer paying 80 percent of the bill, you would fill the cart with lobster and filet mignon. Everything would cost more because demand would rise and supermarkets would stop running sales. Why should they — when their customers barely care about the price?
i’m sure you’re tired of my posting of these things, but with the dems continuing to want to push national healthcare (and with it’s failure here and abroad), i’d like to keep you thinking about market driven reforms that should work in america.
I’m not sure what the hell Jesus is talking about, but this is a simple one for me.
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