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Category Archives: Economics
Estate Tax Repeal
Topic: Economics – Estate Tax The estate tax is the most capitalist tax that exists. Capitalism, which some seem to think is based on people inheriting assets from their relatives, is not. Capitalism is based on the concept that each … Continue reading
Saving Lives: US Health Care Improvement
8 part special report by US News and Word Report on improving the US Health Care system. Join IHI in an ambitious initiative called the 100K Lives Campaign. Its goal is to save 100,000 hospital patients’ lives by 9 a.m. … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health care, Management Articles, quote, Systems thinking
Tagged Health care
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Millennium Development Goals
re: Six Sigma Training for the G-8? Interestingly Prime minstrel Blair recently showed an understanding of systems thinking (specifically how targets can result in worse performance, when targets result in distortion of the system rather than improvement). In the targets … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health care, Management, Six sigma, Systems thinking
Tagged Economics
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China and the Sugar Industry Tax Consumers
China to Raise Tariffs On Clothing Exports, from the Washington Post: The Chinese action would raise export duties on 74 categories of Chinese clothing from token amounts announced late last year to a range of 12 to 48 cents per … Continue reading
Annual Report by Warren Buffett
The annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway is being held this weekend in Omaha (cnn article). Recently the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report (by Warren Buffett) was published. The report is excellent reading for anyone interested in investing. Some quotes from … Continue reading
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Beginning of the End of Housing Bubble?
Topic: Economics – Investing re: Beginning of the End of Housing Bubble? – Dan Gilmor blog post I doubt we are at the end of the bubble. However, financial bubbles are very difficult to time. My guess is the bubble … Continue reading
Price Discrimination in the Internet Age
Re: Boing Boing post – Why HP’s region coding excuse is bogus There is a simple method for large multi-national companies to use to protect against currency fluctuation. They can use foreign exchange futures to do so. Companies do this … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Economics, Management
Tagged bad customer service, Customer focus, Economics, health care system, internet
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USA Health Care Costs reach 15.3% of GDP – the highest percentage ever
re: Health Care Spending In The United States Slows For The First Time In Seven Years The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services) issued a report (the press release … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health care, Popular, quote
Tagged curiouscat, Deming, economic data, Economics, Health care, health care system, USA
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Drug Prices in the USA
re: Canada mulls end to drugs by mail order, by Colin McClell, Associated Press, 6 Jan 2005, The discussion of restricting Americans from buying drugs from Canada highlights failures of the current system. Unfortunately the focus in not on health … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health care
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Digital Rights Management
From Cory sets DRM strawmen ablaze: “For starters, any market-correction for DRM will surely involve informed customers making good purchase decisions about the DRM in their devices. That’s what this debate is all about. The implicit, “Stop complaining and let … Continue reading
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