What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

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I suspect the next coming months will see Greece fully fall, Italy, Spain, and Portugal soon after.

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shakedown: Health Insurance Industry Official Says Companies Being Pressured To Contribute Funds To Implement Obamacare…




Chicago-style.

Via The Hill:


The links between a nonprofit promoting President Obama’s healthcare law and the White House have created an “air of expectation” that insurers will contribute to the group, according to an insurance industry official.

Current and former administration officials have taken on leadership and fundraising roles for Enroll America, a nonprofit aiming to make sure people sign up for new coverage options. As the ties grow deeper, the organization has come to feel like “just an arm of the administration,” said one official who works closely with insurers.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has already come under fire from congressional Republicans because she has raised money for the organization.

They say it puts inappropriate pressure on insurers, who will need the department’s approval to sell their products through a federally run insurance exchange in more than half the country.

“Companies and organizations should never be pressured for money because it sends the message that contributions are necessary to secure favorable regulatory decisions — creating a ‘pay to play’ environment — or to avoid regulatory reprisals,” Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee said in a recent letter to Sebelius.

Enroll America was created by some of the Affordable Care Act’s most ardent supporters, with a newly targeted mission of promoting enrollment in the law’s new insurance exchanges.
 
Dow up +.80%. This sell off is killing my portfolio.

After one of the biggest selloffs of the decade this month, gold prices nudge upwards up +.18% this week.

AJ will be along shortly to crow about how he's made a fortune from this uptick.
 
shakedown: Health Insurance Industry Official Says Companies Being Pressured To Contribute Funds To Implement Obamacare…

Chicago-style.

Via The Hill:


The links between a nonprofit promoting President Obama’s healthcare law and the White House have created an “air of expectation” that insurers will contribute to the group, according to an insurance industry official.

Current and former administration officials have taken on leadership and fundraising roles for Enroll America, a nonprofit aiming to make sure people sign up for new coverage options. As the ties grow deeper, the organization has come to feel like “just an arm of the administration,” said one official who works closely with insurers.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has already come under fire from congressional Republicans because she has raised money for the organization.

They say it puts inappropriate pressure on insurers, who will need the department’s approval to sell their products through a federally run insurance exchange in more than half the country.

“Companies and organizations should never be pressured for money because it sends the message that contributions are necessary to secure favorable regulatory decisions — creating a ‘pay to play’ environment — or to avoid regulatory reprisals,” Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee said in a recent letter to Sebelius.

Enroll America was created by some of the Affordable Care Act’s most ardent supporters, with a newly targeted mission of promoting enrollment in the law’s new insurance exchanges.


According to an unnamed insurance company worker...
 
stfu with that BS line:mad:

if he were NAMED

the WHOLE US GOVERNMENT would be up his ass
 
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WksFaveJoke Leno-Obama tells Morehouse Coll grads their future is great. Unless, of course, they want jobs. Then, they are totally screwed


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Beef eaters can brace for sticker shock this summer
Sometimes it seems 2013 is turning into one hit to the pocketbook after another, with the payroll tax hike and steeper gas prices earlier this year. Now get ready for a third blow: record beef prices.


Wholesale prices hit an all-time high on Thursday, which will likely mean the priciest retail costs ever for beef in the coming weeks, The Wall Street Journal reports.


Choice-grade beef rose to a record $2.1137 per pound on Thursday, breaking a decade-old record, the paper noted in citing data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.


http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=a6887c18-f6d3-4d31-8b40-e30f08b72219
 
Vetteman and AJ, call your handlers for emergency talking points STAT!

Consumer confidence rises in May to 5-year high

Americans' confidence in the economy jumped in May to a five-year high, lifted by a better outlook for hiring and business conditions. The increase suggests consumers may keep boosting economic growth this year.

The Conference Board, a New York-based private research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose in May to 76.2. That's up from a reading of 69.0 in April and the highest since February 2008.


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