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Singapore is well-known for its efficient healthcare system. It consistently ranks high in global health indexes, with longer life expectancies…
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Rauner Seeks Insurance Program Changes for Illinois Retirees; Michigan Changes Upheld in 6-0 State Supreme Court Decision Illinois state pension and retirement plans are in dire straits. The only way to fix the problems is with plan changes
Bloomberg reports Shanghai Traders Make Trillion-Yuan Stock Bet With Borrowed Cash . Shanghai traders now have more than 1 trillion yuan ($161 billion) of borrowed cash riding on the world’s highest-flying stock market.
Tweet Some bunnies have noticed that Matt King Cole, Bjorn Lomborg and the ignorati from the Breakthrough Institute and yet others are crocadiling about how Africa needs coal to generate electricity, never mind that right now the majority of the countryside and small villages would do better with solar or wind. Â As Eli has pointed out , this is mostly because the costs of building out the distribution network is not zero, far from it, and small village based solar powered grids are less expensive. Of course, none of these folks figure in the costs and difficulties of maintaining an electrical, gas or electric transmission network in these countries, where people have the habit of borrowing power, power lines and gas
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MainWire explains in Lessons for Maine in Vermont’s Failure . Last Wednesday, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin announced that he was abandoning his plan for a single-payer health care system for the state, finally admitting in an unexpected news conference that it is “not the right time.†As one most liberal states in the nation, Vermont has faced years of internal pressure to adopt government-run health care.