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Yielding Wealth | Personal Finance

October 8th, 2008

Presidential Debate: The Economy and Health Care

Most of the questions during last night’s presidential debate dealt with the economy. One of the issues that I find a major part of the economy is health care. Personally, I think that we should have universal health care. But that’s just me.
Anyway, the plan laid out by Barack Obama offers the closest thing to […]

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June 16th, 2008

Ask The Piggy Bank: How Are Health Insurance Premiums Figured?

I got this great question recently from a reader:
I really don’t use my health insurance that much, beyond preventative care visits and a couple of regular prescriptions. What is it that is causing my health insurance premiums to go up?
This is a common question that many people are asking right now. After all, the cost […]

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April 1st, 2008

We’ve Got Socialized Capitalism, Why Not Socialized Health Care?

One of the pet peeves I have about the debate over universal health care is this argument: “If we socialize health care, where will it end?” As if health care would be the first socialized institution in our country.
Our education system, police force, and even our mail system is socialized. When you look around and […]

By miranda -- 20 comments

March 14th, 2008

What Would I Do to Fix The Economy?

As many regular readers know, I’m not a big fan of recent “economic stimulus” efforts. They tend to be band-aids rather than solutions. And Jennifer Hofmann at My Organized Biz asked me what I would do.
So here it is:
There is no way for the government to fix the economy. And it can’t happen in a […]

By miranda -- 5 comments

February 21st, 2008

Presidential Candidates Economic Plans: John McCain

We’ve been looking at what different presidential candidates have to offer in terms of economic plans. As the lone remaining Republican contender, it is no surprise that John McCain offers ideas that are different from the two remain Democratic candidates. He does have some interesting ideas, especially this idea that government deficit spending should be […]

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February 19th, 2008

Presidential Candidates Economic Plans: Hillary Clinton

For the next three days, we are going to look at what the presidential candidates have to offer in the way of economic plans. The idea, of course, is to give you an idea of what the three top contenders offer in terms of trying to save the economy. Today: Hillary Clinton.
Economic plans from Hillary […]

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