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Obamacare Has Federal Work Force Panicked

From Washington Times. Say what you want about President Obama but you got to give the guy credit. He finally discovered the holy grail for dislodging the bloated ranks of federal workers from their jobs. Force them into Obamacare! According to a report in Politico Thursday, lawmakers and their staff all over Capitol Hill are [...]

JPMorgan Private-Equity Unit to Become Independent

From Bloomberg. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), the largest U.S. bank, plans to break off its private-equity unit as an independent firm as the business raises a new fund backed by outside investors. One Equity Partners will still make direct investments on behalf of JPMorgan for an “interim period” and continue to manage the bank’s [...]

How Failure Made These Entrepreneurs Millions

From Entrepreneur. When Steve Blank appeared on the cover of Wired magazine nine years ago, his company then, Rocket Science Games, was expected to revolutionize the videogame industry. At the time, Blank didn’t let the skepticism of critics faze him. “I thought I was a genius,” he says. Three months later, when he called his [...]

Doctors Dump Health Insurance Plans, Charge Patients Less

From Breitbart.com A Kansas physician says he makes the same income and offers better quality care to his patients after he dumped all health insurance companies. Thirty-two-year old family physician Doug Nunamaker of Wichita, Kan., said after five years of dealing with the red tape of health insurance companies and the high overhead for the [...]

The Real Threat to the Markets This Summer

From MSN Money. Can US stocks hold up if China’s economy is as weak as some market segments are indicating? Don’t bet on it. Since the 2008 financial crisis, a quiet battle has been waged in the world economy. On one side are the deflationary forces of deleveraging and slow growth; on the other are [...]

IRS & NSA: The Sum of All Fears

From Wall Street Journal. Here is Barack Obama commenting last Friday on the National Security Agency’s antiterrorist surveillance programs: “We’ve got congressional oversight and judicial oversight. And if people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress and don’t trust federal judges to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution, [...]