Category Archives: Economy & Markets

Health Insurance Premiums To Soar 100%-400%

The US House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee recently sent letters to 17 of the nation’s largest insurance companies regarding health insurance premiums when Obamacare is fully implemented in 2014. The 17 companies include Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Kaiser Foundation and others. The Committee specifically asked the companies to estimate how much…

Top 1% of Earners Would Pay 67% of Obama’s Tax Hikes

Two months later than required by law, President Obama submitted his federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 on April 10. That proposal, as required, included a 10-year budget projection. I wrote in some detail about Obama’s record-large budget proposal in last week’s E-Letter. Now that analysts have had a few days to drill down…