Worried about China’s property bubble collapsing and cratering the global economy? Relax. “China’s boom is over; but Beijing will avoid a bust.” Or so reads a headline on the back page of the May 13, 2014, issue of my favorite newspaper, the Financial Times. The column by Jay Pelosky of [continue reading . . . ]
For a presentation May 8 to the Washington Alaska Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, I added to my talk a few comments on income inequality. It is not hard to find ways of illustrating growing income inequality in the United States and elsewhere. Here a few slides prepared [continue reading . . . ]
North Dakota passed Alaska in oil production on a monthly basis two years ago this month. So it is not news that Alaska, long a close second to Texas, remains No. 3. As recently as a decade ago, Alaska pumped almost 36 barrels of oil for every 40 pumped in [continue reading . . . ]