capitalism at its best. the healthcare giants taking care of your health:

– GlaxoSmithKline Plc knew its diabetes drug Avandia might cause heart damage several years before a study documented the risk and the company pressed doctors to retract or revise warnings about side effects, said a report from researchers…— bloomberg online

The lost decades. This past year Obama’s greatest mistake, the one that caused an almost certain electoral failure, was in appointing too many economists. He surrounded himself with the meager, but eager. The solution to our economic problem is not more economists.