In the current battle over health care, you will hear a lot more of a ruckus over WHO is covered as opposed to much about the quality of coverage. As a result, a lot of the debate is based on which politician is supplying the numbers themselves. Here’s a look at the government’s data from the St….
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Hot Links: Pulp Tinkerbell
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The agenda for economic regulation reform at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh isn’t looking too promising. (Economix) A tale of tragic heroism in the Bronx. (NYP) The Healthcare Debate rages on…in an Iron Man comic book. (Ecocomics) My fave post of the week so far: Imagine If Lehman Brothers Had…
John Mauldin: An Unpayable Deficit?
John Mauldin‘s latest newsletter, entitled This Way Be Dragons (Thoughts from the Frontline), tackles the big problem that the bulls don’t want to think about yet: How will the $1.2 trillion deficit we’ve got in the oven ever be paid off? While Obama gives lip service to cutting the deficit in half, his actual budget…
These Little Piggies Went to Market
Apparently, there is an explosion in new equity offerings and even new debt offerings coming from the REIT sector. The Real Estate Investment Trusts are raising cash from investors while they can, and high-profile deals have already gotten done by Simon Properties (SPG) and Kimco (KIM). From FT: There is an appetite from institutional investors…
