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39-45	February 2008 Article The next bubble: Priming the markets for tomorrow's big crash By Eric Janszen SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Capitalists and financiers; Financial crises; Housing policy; Infrastructure (Economics); Insurance; Real estate business; Renewable energy sources; Speculation PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
16	August 1993 Readings/Article Gays and insurance: The peroxide defense By Timothy Joseph Casey SEE ALSO: Beauty operators; Homophobia; Insurance; Insurance, Life PDF IMAGES
21	December 1986 Readings/Article AIDS: The view from Wall Street By Martin E. Zweig and James McKeever SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Hospitals; Insurance; Interviews; McKeever, James PDF IMAGES
69-75	September 1959 Article The mathematics of sex, gambling, and insurance By Darrell Huff SEE ALSO: Gambling systems; Insurance; Probabilities; Sex ratio; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
238-248	February 1939 Article The Social Security “reserve” swindle By John T. (John Thomas) Flynn SEE ALSO: Insurance; Investments; Old age pensions; Pension trusts; Reserves; Social security taxes PDF IMAGES
958	November 1879 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Cotton farmers; Insurance PDF IMAGES
764-765	April 1874 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Cambridge; Hard-Shell Baptists; Harvard University; Hotels; Insurance; North Adams; Rates PDF IMAGES

Dec 2003	Amount by which the number of U.S. deaths in 2000 from lack of medical insurance exceeded those from AIDS: 967	Harper's Index Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)/Institute of Medicine (Washington)
Mar 2003	Number of states whose Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurers were for-profit corporations in 1990 and 2002, respectively: 0, 18	Harper's Index Source: Consumers Union (Yonkers, N.Y.)

December 8, 2003

President George W. Bush signed a $400 billion Medicare bill that will provide a prescription-drug benefit to elderly Americans; the bill permits private insurance companies to compete with Medicare, which many think will destroy the program, but bans policies that would cover gaps in the drug benefit on the theory that people with good prescription coverage take too many pills and drive up medical costs.

Weekly Review

By Roger D. Hodge

Source:

Associated Press, New York Times

397-405

February 1869

Fiction

The insurance on the “highflyer”

By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

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