Jon's looks worth the time; Stephen's is classic "Me CEO-Man. Me fix everything!" BS. Which might well make for a good interview.
Helaine Olen, Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry Helaine Olen.com twitter Slate Ladies, I’ll Handle That Portfolio: How the personal finance industry patronizes women NYT op ed: Can’t Save? Here’s Why Notable: We seem to want to believe we can budget-cut our way to financial success, maybe because we view monetary setbacks as shameful, nobody’s fault but our own. The personal finance establishment endorses our self-blaming tendencies. David Bach became famous promulgating the idea that by cutting out the daily Starbucks run, people could retire as millionaires. Dave Ramsey has lauded men and women who “refused to participate in the recession,” as if a bad economy is a problem of attitude. at ThinkProgress booksite PubWeekly author spotlight Amazon Kirkus B&N excerpt at alternet the economist notable: HAVE you ever met anyone who has grown rich just by saving? Probably not. But you may well have met someone who has grown rich looking after other people’s savings. That dark secret lies at the heart of “Pound Foolish”, Helaine Olen’s excellent book, a contemptuous exposé of the American personal-finance industry... But Ms Olen is right to home in on the biggest problem that personal-finance gurus neglect; people earning $20,000 a year will struggle to pay for the basics in life and will simply not be able to save their way to a life of comfort, let alone riches. As Ms Olen concludes, “We do not live in an economic environment that will permit mass personal-financial progress, no matter how well meant the guidance or advice.” interview at Boston College's Financial Security Project blog Business Insider video & snippets On 'Daily Show' tonite:our friend @helaineolen, who got some research aid from my wife for her excellent bookamzn.to/XpbOIf — Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) February 20, 2013
Helaine Olen.com twitter Slate Ladies, I’ll Handle That Portfolio: How the personal finance industry patronizes women NYT op ed: Can’t Save? Here’s Why Notable:
We seem to want to believe we can budget-cut our way to financial success, maybe because we view monetary setbacks as shameful, nobody’s fault but our own. The personal finance establishment endorses our self-blaming tendencies. David Bach became famous promulgating the idea that by cutting out the daily Starbucks run, people could retire as millionaires. Dave Ramsey has lauded men and women who “refused to participate in the recession,” as if a bad economy is a problem of attitude.
HAVE you ever met anyone who has grown rich just by saving? Probably not. But you may well have met someone who has grown rich looking after other people’s savings. That dark secret lies at the heart of “Pound Foolish”, Helaine Olen’s excellent book, a contemptuous exposé of the American personal-finance industry... But Ms Olen is right to home in on the biggest problem that personal-finance gurus neglect; people earning $20,000 a year will struggle to pay for the basics in life and will simply not be able to save their way to a life of comfort, let alone riches. As Ms Olen concludes, “We do not live in an economic environment that will permit mass personal-financial progress, no matter how well meant the guidance or advice.”
But Ms Olen is right to home in on the biggest problem that personal-finance gurus neglect; people earning $20,000 a year will struggle to pay for the basics in life and will simply not be able to save their way to a life of comfort, let alone riches. As Ms Olen concludes, “We do not live in an economic environment that will permit mass personal-financial progress, no matter how well meant the guidance or advice.”
On 'Daily Show' tonite:our friend @helaineolen, who got some research aid from my wife for her excellent bookamzn.to/XpbOIf — Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) February 20, 2013
On 'Daily Show' tonite:our friend @helaineolen, who got some research aid from my wife for her excellent bookamzn.to/XpbOIf
David Goldhill, Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It Wikipedia at The Atlantic twitter Amazon goodreads B&N NPR at Bloomberg: To Fix Health Care, Turn Patients Into Customers bullshit NYT op=ed PubWeekly lovefest sfgate.com review Notable: The primary limitation of Goldhill's solution is that business itself also needs to be reformed, as greed and profiteering plague both our financial sector and its intrusion into medicine. Goldhill fails to recognize that blind adherence to business principles helped lead America into this modern health care mess to begin with and that the current construct of health care finance has enormously benefited businesses since the 1940s. He does not discuss the business factors that spurred the development of modern financing, and how business has profited enormously over the decades in perpetuating this flawed construct. He falls into the trap of using failed business arguments to justify repeating the mistakes of the past, applying the same arcane arguments used in the 1940s to expand an employer-based health care system, and in 1965 to introduce Medicare and Medicaid. To simply reuse these failed business principles and arguments to reform health care in 2012 is to repeat the mistakes of the past... The beast of American health care, as Goldhill refers to it, needs to be attacked directly. The answer is to design a fair system where everyone receives an adequate - and sufficient - amount of health care. Better solutions to allocate our precious medical resources will be revealed after our nation ceases to regard health as a commodity, and comes to understand the key principle that health care is a public good. NYjournalofbooks review/advertorial Kirkus notable (my emphasis): A media executive’s take on our health care system’s flaws and plan for a totally different approach. When Goldhill witnessed the death of his father from a hospital-borne infection, he decided to analyze the industry to understand how such a tragedy could occur, concluding that it does not live up to the standards of other industries in our economy. Contrary to the views of acclaimed economists Ken Arrow and Paul Krugman, Goldhill, who has not worked in the health care industry, asserts that the reason the industry provides poor customer service at unaffordable prices and gets uneven results is in large part because market forces are not at work. Patients have ceded their role as consumers to big intermediaries, including insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid...The author acknowledges that transitioning into a system that makes each individual a purchaser of his or her own health care might take a couple of generations, but he provides some guidelines for easing into it gradually.
Wikipedia at The Atlantic twitter Amazon goodreads B&N NPR at Bloomberg: To Fix Health Care, Turn Patients Into Customers bullshit NYT op=ed PubWeekly lovefest sfgate.com review Notable:
The primary limitation of Goldhill's solution is that business itself also needs to be reformed, as greed and profiteering plague both our financial sector and its intrusion into medicine. Goldhill fails to recognize that blind adherence to business principles helped lead America into this modern health care mess to begin with and that the current construct of health care finance has enormously benefited businesses since the 1940s. He does not discuss the business factors that spurred the development of modern financing, and how business has profited enormously over the decades in perpetuating this flawed construct. He falls into the trap of using failed business arguments to justify repeating the mistakes of the past, applying the same arcane arguments used in the 1940s to expand an employer-based health care system, and in 1965 to introduce Medicare and Medicaid. To simply reuse these failed business principles and arguments to reform health care in 2012 is to repeat the mistakes of the past... The beast of American health care, as Goldhill refers to it, needs to be attacked directly. The answer is to design a fair system where everyone receives an adequate - and sufficient - amount of health care. Better solutions to allocate our precious medical resources will be revealed after our nation ceases to regard health as a commodity, and comes to understand the key principle that health care is a public good.
He does not discuss the business factors that spurred the development of modern financing, and how business has profited enormously over the decades in perpetuating this flawed construct. He falls into the trap of using failed business arguments to justify repeating the mistakes of the past, applying the same arcane arguments used in the 1940s to expand an employer-based health care system, and in 1965 to introduce Medicare and Medicaid. To simply reuse these failed business principles and arguments to reform health care in 2012 is to repeat the mistakes of the past...
The beast of American health care, as Goldhill refers to it, needs to be attacked directly. The answer is to design a fair system where everyone receives an adequate - and sufficient - amount of health care. Better solutions to allocate our precious medical resources will be revealed after our nation ceases to regard health as a commodity, and comes to understand the key principle that health care is a public good.
A media executive’s take on our health care system’s flaws and plan for a totally different approach. When Goldhill witnessed the death of his father from a hospital-borne infection, he decided to analyze the industry to understand how such a tragedy could occur, concluding that it does not live up to the standards of other industries in our economy. Contrary to the views of acclaimed economists Ken Arrow and Paul Krugman, Goldhill, who has not worked in the health care industry, asserts that the reason the industry provides poor customer service at unaffordable prices and gets uneven results is in large part because market forces are not at work. Patients have ceded their role as consumers to big intermediaries, including insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid...The author acknowledges that transitioning into a system that makes each individual a purchaser of his or her own health care might take a couple of generations, but he provides some guidelines for easing into it gradually.
When Goldhill witnessed the death of his father from a hospital-borne infection, he decided to analyze the industry to understand how such a tragedy could occur, concluding that it does not live up to the standards of other industries in our economy. Contrary to the views of acclaimed economists Ken Arrow and Paul Krugman, Goldhill, who has not worked in the health care industry, asserts that the reason the industry provides poor customer service at unaffordable prices and gets uneven results is in large part because market forces are not at work. Patients have ceded their role as consumers to big intermediaries, including insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid...The author acknowledges that transitioning into a system that makes each individual a purchaser of his or her own health care might take a couple of generations, but he provides some guidelines for easing into it gradually.
TONIGHT: Stephen discusses rumors of game-fixing in #soccer and a criminal conspiracy behind horse meat in Europe. @comedycentral 11:30pm ET — The Colbert Report (@ColbertReport) February 21, 2013
TONIGHT: Stephen discusses rumors of game-fixing in #soccer and a criminal conspiracy behind horse meat in Europe. @comedycentral 11:30pm ET
This has become Rubio's "Freebird." twitter.com/jacktink/statu… — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 21, 2013
This has become Rubio's "Freebird." twitter.com/jacktink/statu…
.@wkamaubell welcomes “House of Lies” star @iamdoncheadle as the special guest for tomorrow's all new #TotallyBiased. — Totally Biased (@TotallyBiasedFX) February 21, 2013
.@wkamaubell welcomes “House of Lies” star @iamdoncheadle as the special guest for tomorrow's all new #TotallyBiased.
BREAKING: MAN HAD SEX WITH LADY! on.cc.com/Vw4PQm — Indecision (@indecision) February 20, 2013
BREAKING: MAN HAD SEX WITH LADY! on.cc.com/Vw4PQm
Elizabeth Colbert Busch will be a guest on 'The Last Work with Lawrence O'Donnell' on Wednesday, ... #lastword #GetGlue getglue.com/tv_shows/last_… — Colbert News Hub (@ColbertNewsHub) February 20, 2013
Elizabeth Colbert Busch will be a guest on 'The Last Work with Lawrence O'Donnell' on Wednesday, ... #lastword #GetGlue getglue.com/tv_shows/last_…
John Oliver will be a guest on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' on Wednesday, 20th February at 12:... #latenight #GetGlue getglue.com/tv_shows/late_… — Colbert News Hub (@ColbertNewsHub) February 20, 2013
John Oliver will be a guest on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' on Wednesday, 20th February at 12:... #latenight #GetGlue getglue.com/tv_shows/late_…