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Health Care

Since policy makers are prone to handing out tax credits, why not incent health care providers to help control overall costs. Providers treating low/no income patients at low/no charge get a tax credit.

Truth is Stranger than Fiction

A restaurant chain borrows almost a billion dollars for 30-years at 3.7%! (MCD) A chat room business files for an IPO with some estimating the market valuation at almost 100 billion dollars! (FB)

Housing

Earth to Fed: Very low interest rates won’t work and paradoxically compound the problem.  Lenders need a reasonable return for the risks. A 4% 30-year mortgage won’t do it.  5 to 8% might, and the monthly payment on a conforming loan…

State of the world

According to Thomson Reuters, 88 S&P companies have issued negative earnings preannouncements for the fourth quarter, compared with 25 positive announcements, creating a ratio of 3.5, the largest since the second quarter of 2001. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a…