By Michael Hodin
The U.S.’s ongoing budget battle is becoming a kind of never-ending story that’s rife with political fights but light on scrutiny of underlying issues that keep us on the fiscal treadmill. Sprint as we might, we won’t move an inch until we address the role…
As Kathleen Sebelius was under fire for the monumental screw-up of the Obamacare website, Senator Bill Nelson held a smaller, less sensational conversation on the future of America. In a Member’s Roundtable, Senator Nelson…
While UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to China earlier this month made progress on the importance of free and open trade and investment, an even bigger help to China was his move as head of the G-8 to hold a Dementia Summit. It is the…
If you’re over 50, or ever will plan to on it, Australia is the place to be the first week in June. Quite remarkably, one of Australia’s most important and successful companies — AMP, an Annuities Financial…
The White House has announced it will hold its White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) on July 13th. This event is held once every decade, as initially mandated by Congress in 1965.
When the G-20 Finance Ministers met in Shanghai, their goal was to chart a strategy to jumpstart the global economy. It would be hard to accuse them of feeling comfortable with business-as-usual, as the…
The good news about reduced official unemployment — down to around 5% in the August report — contrasts sharply with persistently worse, but real U6 total unemployment figures, still hovering in the 10% range. Nor is it inconsequential that U.S. growth…
