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Please Give to Haiti
Posted by: fitzgeraldsteele on: January 15, 2010
Donate $10 via text message: Text ‘Haiti’ to 90999 (this will add $10 to your monthly cell phone bill) OR Donate on the Red Cross web site
Health Care and Economics
Posted by: fitzgeraldsteele on: August 13, 2009
Sara and I watch the Daily Show on Hulu. Tuesday’s guest was Austan Goolsbee, chief economist of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Goolsbee made one point that I thought was really interesting, and clearly shows my misunderstanding of macro- vs. microeconomics. Gooslbee said that earlier this year we were on the verge of “Another Great [...]
Good thing we still have journalists…
Posted by: fitzgeraldsteele on: December 24, 2008
The New York Times is doing a series of articles exploring the causes of the current financial crisis. I just read this article: The Reckoning: White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire As early as 2006, top advisers to Mr. Bush dismissed warnings from people inside and outside the White House that housing prices were inflated [...]
Now Google Know When You’re Going to be Sick
Posted by: fitzgeraldsteele on: November 20, 2008
Those kids at Google are pretty creative, by which I mean that they come up with unique solutions to problems that are useful to lots of people. Google Flu Trends We’ve found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in [...]
Low Faith in McCain’s Health Plan
Posted by: fitzgeraldsteele on: October 16, 2008
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For what it is worth, the problem I have two problems with McCain’s plan. They both stem from my previous frustrations in trying to objectively evaluate between different health plan options: health insurance companies are for-profit corporations, who are out to maximize profit. Tthat means that they’re looking out for their bottom line, and their shareholders,. That may or may not mean they put your best interests first.
Making the Economic Crisis Personal
Posted by: fitzgeraldsteele on: October 9, 2008
Today I looked at my 401(k) for the first time in a long time (and it has been even longer since I blogged about it). For 2008 year-to-date, our 401(k) is down 32%! That stings. That account is the bulk of our long term savings, so our family net worth took a comparable hit. But [...]
Iowa’s coming budget issues…
Posted by: fitzgeraldsteele on: August 28, 2008
Core curriculum? It’s more like Gore curriculum | press-citizen.com | Iowa City Press Citizen
Posted by: fitzgeraldsteele on: August 19, 2008
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Ron Paul on the Housing Bailout
Posted by: fitzgeraldsteele on: July 24, 2008
High Gas Prices good for you, and America?
Posted by: fitzgeraldsteele on: July 17, 2008
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