Marble Falls With inflation at 8.5% over the last year, the high-water mark since 1981, many are thinking about what our dollars are worth and whether we can make groceries and rent soon. It’s a funny thing though, in making a list of our entitlements as Americans, some might note the beauty …
Category: Financial Justice
Hospital Pricing Transparency, Not!
New Orleans The weather forecast included both thundershowers and a tornado warning, but when asked if we should go ahead with the often scheduled and postponed press conference to release our study on hospital pricing transparency, the decision was easy: go! So, there we were in front of Ochsner-Baptist Hospital, a major unit …
Sanctions and Crony Capitalism
Carlsbad There’s a lot of back and forth in the news about whether the sanctions being employed fiercely by the western world as a weapon to pressure Russia over its invasion of Ukraine will work. The theory would be that sanctions on close associates of Russian leader Putin among the rich oligarchs, military, and …