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Healthcare’s Falling Knife

While driving back from my nephew’s soccer game last weekend, I needed to pick up a prescription at my local pharmacy. The line was moving at glacial speed, so I struck up a conversation with the woman in front of me, who mentioned she worked as a nurse at a UnitedHealth-affiliated clinic. “Our patients are […]

The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or Full Speed Ahead Towards the Cliff

Remember the cult classic 1955 coming-of-age drama, Rebel Without a Cause? In it, two teenagers are racing stolen cars towards a cliff on the California coast, playing chicken to see who jumps out first. James Dean makes it out safely, but gang leader Corey Allen gets a belt on his leather jacket stuck on a […]