Growth trends in Europe’s three largest economies should put all doubt to rest that eurosclerosis is back, says the Wall Street Journal. Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Germany, France and Italy is falling, relative to the United States, to levels below those recorded in the 1970s. And according
The Maryland General Assembly in January overrode Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s veto of a bill that requires employers with more than 10,000 workers in the state to spend at least 8 per cent of their payroll on employee health care or pay into a fund for the uninsured. Lawmakers in Colorado,
Call it a different kind of sugar high. Many people think of sugar as little more than an ingredient in foods like pies and candy bars. But hedge funds and other investors are betting that more sugar will soon be needed for another reason: to produce ethanol.
That is the increasingly
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month, the United Nations Development Programme promoted its plan to institute a global socialist economic system, says Henry Lamb, executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organisation (ECO), and chairman of Sovereignty International. The plan is detailed in a book entitled
President Bush is pushing for health care reform based on individual choice. The system in Switzerland offers some of those choices, and some health economists say their system is better.
Under the Swiss system, every resident is required to buy health insurance. If they don’t, they pay stiff penalties. Companies have
