I'm actually very optimistic about U.S. economic prospects in an unfettered market. Here are some reasons for optimism ... The average American worker is better educated and more capable than the average worker worldwide. There are, of course, many excellent workers in countries such as China and Mexico, but on average a U.S. worker is more useful to a business. We have a better-than-average infrastructure of transportation, communications, electric power, and legal system. We have a lot of natural resources, including the basics of land and fresh water.

What do online
poker and health care have in common? If an amendment offered by Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon,
makes its way into law the profitable business of online gambling could generate revenue to aid health care by funding subsidies provided through the America's Healthy Future Act of 2009. The dollars would be aimed at helping low-income Americans.

A justice that does not spare the powerful and those protected by the powerful? I understand now why a minister of the French Republic --" who has carefully put his president and his ministers safe from justice -- finds that America is frightening.

Mao's China has been annihilated. 60 years on from its founding on the 1st October 1949 there is little recognisable about it. Although some on the left will lament the loss of this slightly more presentable face of state Socialism, this is a cause to celebrate.

Great news today on the open-access (OA) front with the federal government's announcement that the Federal Register, the daily compilation of proposed and final regulations to be issued by federal agencies, will now be available in XML format.

Coal dust inhalation has been linked to a handful of debilitating lung diseases, including pneumoconiosis (black lung) and silicosis. Despite the fact that these diseases are 100 percent preventable, countless coal miners and quarry workers continue to be diagnosed with these fatal illnesses each year.

There are a lot of sites that offer criminal record and background check services but IntegraScan gives back to the community by offering free employee and volunteer checks to youth organizations.

The recession is ending but at a slow U-shaped rate, one of the few economists to predict our current recession, Nouriel Roubini, stated on CNBC this morning. Our recovery right now is anemic and those that have said it is now a bull market are too hasty, Roubini, a Stern School of Business professor at New York University. "It's clear this global recession is coming to an end," Roubini said on CNBC's Squawk Box.

What is the surprise? Of course they are happy, anything that the country does that moves us in a direction that might employ people, and bring money to communities means that they would be losing votes in the next election. It could not be any more simple to understand that this. If health care fails, more votes for them, if the economy languishes, we all know what happens to whoever is in power if the economy is in trouble.

Newspapers have been covering Benjamin Bernanke's mid-September statement that the recession may be "technically over", by which he presumably meant that U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was no longer shrinking. Should we pay attention to GDP statistics or whether or not we see business investing and people getting hired for non-government-related jobs?

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