I cannot recall a company and an auditor getting into such a squabble, which does not leave either of them looking very good.īut cutting through the verbiage, I think we can see what happened. Has fired back at Grant Thornton, which essentially said the company lied about whether Grant Thornton had approved some accounting. “How much could you eat?”ĥ) Make the food yourself. “Imagine you only had one dish,” he says. But put new partners into the cage, and it A male mouse and a female mouse will soon tire of mating with each other. As evidence, Ariely brings up a study conducted on mice. They include:ġ) “Move to chopsticks!” Or, barring that, smaller plates and utensils.Ģ) Place the food “far away,” so people have to work (i.e., walk to the kitchen) to get another serving.ģ) Start with a soup course, and serve other foods that are filling but low in calories.Ĥ) Limit the number of courses. Professor Ariely had a few suggestions for ways to reduce your turkey intake. As it turns out, Ezra Klein at The Washington Post wisely asked Professor Ariely how toĪpply those same economic principles to help readers limit another kind of consumption: Thanksgiving food. On Tuesday we posted a neat video with Dan Ariely, a Duke behavioral economist, about tips for limiting In a major step forward, this passed the committee on Nov. Would empower federal regulators to rein in and dismantle financial firms that are so large, inter-connected, or risky that their collapse would put at risk the entire American economic system, even if thoseįirms currently appear to be well-capitalized and healthy. Is chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises - proposed an amendment to the Financial Stability Improvement Act (currently before the House Financial Kanjorski - the Pennsylvania Democrat who Since then, in the legislative trenches where the detailed crafting takes place, Representative Paul E. Senator Bernard Sanders, an independent from Vermont, introduced the “ Too Big To Fail Is Too Big to Exist”īill in early November this helped focus attention. Should our biggest banks be made smaller? Simon Johnson, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economic, is the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.Īs legislation on restructuring the banking industry moves forward, attention on Capitol Hill is increasingly drawn to the issue of bank size. Peter Boone is chairman of the charity Effective Intervention, a research associate at the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and a principal in Salute Capital Management Ltd. I cannot recall a clearer statement of unreserved support for universal and comprehensive health insurance for America and a more straightforward definition of rationing health care. Public or private health insurance - to pay for it. She was proposing that women should not have to decide between spending $250 of their own money to get a mammogram or go without it, and that the key here is to get someone else - either Īs a long-time champion of universal health insurance for this country - even at the risk of occasionally being labeled a socialist - I was both stunned and charmed by Senator Hutchison’s The key is that these are covered by insurance so women will not have to decide if they’re going to spend $250 to get a mammogram because they and their doctors believe it is right to do so. And now the public option may not pay for those, and that means the So this task force says all of a sudden we’re going to change the guidelines that we have had for all these years. If the public option doesn’t pay for that - and the task force recommendations are what the public option is going The mammogram before the age of 50 or more than every other year after 50. SENATOR HUTCHISON: It’s because it’s whether the insurance and the public option are going to pay for a woman who decides that she wants to have GREGORY: Senator Hutchison, you said this is the beginning of rationing. Gregory’s guests, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, There ensued the following fascinating exchange with one of Mr. The task force is at pains to mention that it is not a United States government agency and that its conclusions are independent of American government. Although financed by the American government, That earlier in the week had recommended against routine screening mammography in women aged 40 to 49. On last Sunday morning’s Meet the Press, the host David Gregory touched on the United States Preventive Services Task Force report Harry Cabluck/Associated Press Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas.
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