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April 1, 2014June 16, 2022Correspondence

Flyover Math

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In January, George Mason University published a survey of the financial solvency of our country’s 50 states.  Illinois came in at 48th place, just in front of Connecticut and New Jersey.  The Land of Lincoln caught a bit of a break, it seems.  Perhaps the extent of Illinois’s legacy pension and healthcare costs was not...

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June 1, 2011June 20, 2022Vital Signs

Throughly American Healthcare

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You would have thought that, at 17 percent of the U.S. economy, the healthcare industry would be much better understood than it apparently is by our Washington brethren.  I can’t help but look back and smile at the image of Nancy Pelosi standing at a podium and opining on how she couldn’t wait to get...