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“The traumatic upheaval that has roiled Wall Street during the past two years has produced – surprisingly quickly – a widely acknowledged new pecking order in the world of high finance: Goldman Sachs, in trading, and JPMorgan Chase, in banking, have become the undisputed industry leaders, with a hand in nearly every deal or trade.”

Hezbollah has regrouped since “it took on the Israeli army in war that killed 1,191 Lebanese and 43 Israeli civilians…Hezbollah has up to 40,000 rockets and is training its forces to use ground-to-ground missiles capable of hitting Tel Aviv, and anti-aircraft missiles that could challenge Israel’s dominance of the skies over Lebanon.”

Arthur Laffer’s solution: “A patient-centered health-care reform begins with individual ownership of insurance policies,” leveraging HSAs, purchasing insurance policies across state lines, tort reform and reducing employer-mandated benefits. “It reallocates the majority of Medicaid spending into a simple voucher for low-income individuals to purchase their own insurance.”

Gambling in this establishment! “One lobbyist for this bill was Nucor Steel. In Cayuga County, NY, Nucor turns scrap steel into sheet metal and other products. The clunkers are now becoming a subsidized feedstock for Nucor, which helps explain why Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, has led the push for $2 billion extra in clunker cash.”