... -- China's baby-milk scandal Formula for disaster/The Economist China's baby-milk scandal Formula for disaster Sep 18th 2008 | SHIJIAZHUANG From The Economist print edition A scandal in China over deadly baby milk http://www.economist.com/images/na/2008w38/China.jpg AP “QUALITY and ...he says. Harmony has yielded to discord. http://www.economist.com/world/asia/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=12263093

... of houses became grossly inflated, costing more than many people could realistically afford. Result, boom and bust, Boom and bust is otherwise known as "The business cycle", and happens the world over. It would take an economist better than Gordon Mac Shite-Features to stop it happening. realising this he went for second best and just put the kibosh on the boom bit. negative equity, homelessness, etc. That was Gordon Mac Shite-...

...> wrote in news:gb15p492ut8@news1.newsguy.com: Ah... My drop zone has been entered. That is the mistake of the classical economists or the mistaken interpretation of the classical economists. Vakue is __**MEASURED**__ in labor because there is no such thing as a "util". The error is in claiming that value _IS_ ...

.... Where's the "labor" in the value? Ah... My drop zone has been entered. That is the mistake of the classical economists or the mistaken interpretation of the classical economists. Vakue is __**MEASURED**__ in labor because there is no such thing as a "util". The error is in claiming that value _IS_ labor. READ ...

... work for working people on both sides to the border. And we need new corporate rules of the game that make big business accountable to communities and workers, not just greedy investors. Wall Street and conservative economists have insisted that, in our laissez faire system, everyone is on their own. The poor were left on their own, to fend for themselves against twisted economic structures backed by the biggest institutions on Wall ...

... means your employer is going to have to make an estimate on how much the employer is paying for health insurance on your behalf, and you are going to have to pay taxes on that money," said Sherry Glied, an economist who chairs the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Ms. Glied is one of the four scholars who have just completed an independent joint study of the plan. Their ...

... in free markets. But if government must act to contain wider damage when large banks fail, then it is obliged to act to prevent damage from occurring in the first place. Otherwise, the result is what economists term "moral hazard"-- an invitation to take excessive risks. Government, under Franklin Roosevelt, got serious about regulating financial markets after the first cycle of financial bubble and economic ruin in the 1920s. Then, as ...

... employer-based health care plans is around $4,500 for an individual and $12,000 for a family. Of that $12,000 to cover a family, employers in 2007 paid an average of around $9,000. As Don Pedro at Economists for Obama points out, middle-class families with health insurance from their employers -- say, for example, a married couple making between $63,000 and $128,000 -- would certainly have more choice. They could choose to pay an extra $...

... similar. Cycles are fundamental. Many thought that 2000 was a new beginning, whatever their frame of reference was.There was a massive anticipation from the 'new agers' to the fundamentalists, from the economists to the ecologists. Fact is, 2008 is the beginning of the first new cycle in the new millennium. The pent up anxiety has dispersed since 2000, allowing the next wave to hit without creating mass ...

... SEAN: Hi Robert, I hear what ur saying. and understand where ur coming from here. It sure is frustrating. may i add a few ideas to consider amongst the above thoughts, and note I'm not an economist or a banker or an american? [ some comments may not be spot on, i'm imperfect with memory] re the behemoths and public interest : -- There is NO FMac/FMay anywhere but in the USA. The govt/congress started these things under the...