I'm sure that Obamacare will mandate that we pay for fertility treatments for all, including grandmothers and grandfathers, imbeciles, sex-change operees and the like. After all, we will now pay for 90-year olds' heart liver and lung transplants, prisoners' elective surgery for sex changes, stomach banding, hip, knee a...more

Student loans are at the lowest rates ever - 3%  to 4% for new students, more for adult education, which has a higher default rate. From this, the issuers take on the cost of administering, collecting, and tracking the loans. The government will not make a $110 billion profit - it will receive that amount in reimbursem...more

When gold reaches its true value vis-a-vis goods and services available for purchase, many pundits will change their tune.  Comparing 1890 food prices to the $21/oz. price of gold back then, gold is "worth" no more than $700/oz. today. A house that cost $10,000, or 476 oz. of gold, in 1890 would cost $350,000 (250 o...more

This is a sterile debate - there is no institution on the planet that will loan tens of thousands of dollars to someone with no income, no assets, no history and no prospects other than "maybe" a degree and  a good job afterwards. The programs isn't gouging students - take a look at the rates charged to soldiers, to...more

Frankly, I don't give a hoot about hatred of be-sandaled uneducated masses of countries where bigotry and repression of elite bearded mullahs and "princes" overwhelms the individual. They are impoverished - both financially and morally - by followers of a 7th-century pederast misogynist "prophet." The elite buy billion...more

Despite everything already said, we are ALL going to have to pitch in to keep Social Security alive and well for those it is intended to help. Firstly, we can not keep kicking the can down the road, despite our politicians' lack of courage and conviction, more interested in re-election than leadership, partisanship ...more

Yet another case of total waste in government spending - they will no doubt spend tens of thousands re-editing books and calendars, defending themselves from irate parents, providing counselling to aggrieved children from whom childhood is being stolen, etc. Hopefully, these are elected officials who can be thrown o...more

Your comment belies your moniker - and education, understanding of the female half of humanity, international business knowledge and specifically Indian sensitivities.  I am as anti-PC idiocy as any person, but publishing mock-ups of over-endowed women in bonds and distress on an international web site is an embarrassm...more

JWT (J. Walter Thompson) is an international ad agency - how on earth is it possible that they allowed their Indian subsidiary the leeway to produce such tasteless and insensitive ads? They are an insult to the Indian people.  Ford should take JWT to the woodshed, and JWT should ensure that the people responsible fo...more