Health-care Marketeers.

A sad but instructive story about how poorly the current American health-care system uses the "Market" to "regulate" the costs of providing care to "consumers".  This was recently shown on PBS.

http://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/uninsured.html

More Problems With Electronic Trading

Was this a result of High Speed Trading issues?  Probably not, but it sure is suspicious.  One can't really find the fingerprints of market manipulation there yet, but still the feeling persists that "adjustments" are being performed by someone.


http://www.nasdaq.com/article/4th-update-exchanges-route-away-from-nyse-as-issue-affects-trading-in-216-stocks-20121112-01280#.UKGN7aX9J5g