Reagan’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union Decries the Witch Hunt
“Those who are trying to find a way to improve relations with Russia should be praised, not scapegoated.” Amb. Jack Matlock
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/03/u-s-ambassador-soviet-union.html#more-66400
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Buy the dip?
According to Predictit.com, the odds of the healthcare bill passing today has plunged to 13%
It was as high as almost 50% late yesterday...
Source: Predictit.com
While the American Healthcare Act, President Trump’s first major legislative effort, is going to a vote in the House of Representatives on Friday - no matter what; for many years now, the American healthcare system has been flawed.
As Statista's Feliz Richter illustrates in the chart below, U.S. health spending per capita (including public and private spending) is higher than it is anywhere else in the world, and yet, the country lags behind other nations in several aspects such as life expectancy and health insurance coverage.
The Trump administration faces a major legislative test today with the health-care vote, and for those attempting to trade the event, Bloomberg's Cameron Crise notes that risk-takers need to ask themselves two questions...
1) Do I have an edge?
At this point the vote is too close to call. Unless you have someone in DC counting votes alongside the whip, the honest answer is almost certainly “no”
2) Does this vote matter?
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,
As the immigration debate goes on, many commentators continue to sloppily ignore the difference between the concept of naturalization and the phenomenon of immigration.