Wall Street Confident In Health Care Debate, Europe On Fire, Dollar Store's New Trick And More

Thursday, March 29, 2012 Wall Street Thinks Court Won't Blow Up Health Care Even as the health insurance industry openly warns about a doomsday scenario that would throw the market into chaos, Wall Street seems pretty optimistic about the Supreme Court's decision on health care reform. Share prices for big publicly traded health insurance companies like UnitedHealth Group and WellPoint jumped on Thursday. Traders reacted with optimism that when the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of health care reform, the decision won't disadvantage insurers, according to an analysis by TheStreet.com. Ex-SEC Chairman Defends Goldman: 'Nobody Really Puts Customers First' Dollar Store Tries New Tactic To Hook Poor Shoppers Oh, Look, Europe Is On Fire Again Whistleblower Says Bank Harassing 'The Living Hell' Out Of Her Historic Buildings For Sale! BLOG POSTS Robert L. Borosage: The 1% Strike Back The Great Recession exposed deep systemic weaknesses in our economy. The test is not whether we can reflate another bubble, but whether we can build a new foundation for sustained growth and shared prosperity. Mary Jo Kilroy: DeMarco Needs to Get to Work or Get a New Job The Federal Housing Finance Agency needs to stop being an obstacle and instead empower Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to take reasonable measures to rewrite underwater mortgages, including principal reductions. Robert Reich: Break Up the Big Banks, Says the Dallas Fed The Dallas Fed argues that the Fed's easy money policy can't be much help to the U.S. economy as long as Wall Street is "still clogged with toxic assets accumulated in the boom years." So what's the answer? It's "breaking up the nation's biggest banks into smaller units." Martin Sullivan: A Grown-Up Conversation About the Corporate Tax Higher corporate taxes do not reduce corporate capital formation. They shift it abroad. The result is domestic job losses and lower domestic wages. Mark Hillary: Your Life Is Social, Why Isn't Your Company? Forget about social media being just a tool for PR or marketing or community building -- it is changing every part of the enterprise, root and branch.

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