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The top of today’s reading list reports on the readiness of HIX (Obamacare health insurance exchanges) which open tomorrow …….. and the last article is about water shortages in the U.S.
- 1 day to launch: Are the exchanges ready? (Elliot M. Kass, Employee Benefit Advisor) See also Health Q&A: Obamacare exchanges roll out with questions aplenty (Alex Nussbaum, Employee Benefit Advisor).
- Do not kid yourself that the eurozone is recovering (Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times) The main constraint on the resumption of growth is the failure to clean up the banking sector.
- The flimflam of this week’s Obamacare numbers (Jack Shafer, Reuters) Good assessment of incomplete numbers from the government. No mention of cherry-picking by Obamacare opponents. See this article for a “news” version of this story.
- Psychological Ether (John Hussman) Hat tip to Sig Silber.
- The Rise of the Antiwar Libertarians (Nick Gillespie, The Daily Beast) Rand Paul and Justin Amash have principles that trump party politics. That’s exactly why they are the best hope to stop an American war on Syria.
- Recession, Not Obamacare, To Thank for Lower 2013 Health Costs (Meghan Foley, Wall Street Cheat Sheet)
- China’s Ultimate Debt Holders – Not the Borrowers (Sara Hsu, Triple Crisis)
- “Representative Scott Peters Has Introduced Legislation To [Deplete] Our Nation’s [Private Savings].” (Roger Erickson, Mike Norman Economics) Roger Erickson contributes to Global Economic Intersection.
- Has the Fed Been Fooled by Phony Jobs Numbers? (Matthew C. Klein, Bloomberg, 24 September 2013) See comment #4 submitted by Global Economic Intersection contributor Lee Adler. Steven Hansen has argued that this is a problem for the past four years.
- Nearly One In 10 U.S. Watersheds Is ‘Stressed’; Demand For Water Outpacing Supply: CIRES Study (Matt Ferner, The Huffington Post) Hat tip to David Sciacero, Newsana.