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What does Greece, Brasil and Oil have in common?
by justme on 6 Jul 2015   7 comments, latest 9 years ago
Greece votes against European debt deal, oil drops 6.46% and Petrobras is down 7.42% as of this moment. What is the connection? Don't say just "oil", because XOM (Exxon ...

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Investment data: Orders by Fidelity Customers
by justme on 27 May 2015   3 comments, latest 9 years ago
I like this resource, which was mentioned by Barry Ritholtz on his blog several weeks ago. The address is https://eresearch.fidelity.com The data shows the top 10 most numerous (*) ...

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Anthem/Blue Cross data theft
by justme on 3 Apr 2015   16 comments, latest 9 years ago
I got a letter the other day from Anthem Inc, a big health insurance company, that customer data had been stolen sometime between Dec. 2014 and Jan 29, 2015. ...

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What happened to the red house favicon for patrick.net?
by justme on 31 Jan 2015   4 comments, latest 9 years ago
My patrick.net browser tabs no longer display the familiar red "bubble house" favicon, just an empty box made with a stipple pattern. How about bringing it back, Patrick? It ...

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Selling California's public property was prevented by Gov. Brown
by justme on 2 Dec 2014   14 comments, latest 9 years ago
THIS (the below) is the difference between a Democrat governor and a Republican governor. The Republican wants to sell public property and then lease it back so that the ...

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Obamacare/Covered California: 2014 statistics and 2015 price projections
by justme on 20 Oct 2014   25 comments, latest 9 years ago
The following pdf document is a treasure trove of data on market share numbers for the CoveredCA market segment for the inaugural year of 2014. The pdf also contains ...

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Carmen Segarra and the secret NY Federal Reserve tapes
by justme on 26 Sep 2014   3 comments, latest 9 years ago
Wow, this stuff is powerful. The radio program with excerpts of the tapes is here http://www.thisamericanlife.or Here is an Bloomberg article written by Michael Lewis: http://www.bloombergview.com/a QUOTE: It's an ...

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The Walking Dead: Another paranoid and racist TV Show
by justme on 21 Aug 2014   31 comments, latest 10 years ago
With years of hoopla about the Zombie Apocalypse and Cannibal Anarchy on Patnet, I decided to investigate why the meme is so popular. After some googling I succumbed to ...

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Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein is oozing slime in TV interview tonight
by justme on 10 Jun 2014   5 comments, latest 10 years ago
Lloyd "Lord" Blankfein is on the Charlie Rose program on PBS tonight. I'm having trouble keeping my dinner down. He is oozing propaganda at warp speed, trying to sound ...

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Case-Shiller: Home Price declines widespread in August
by justme on 26 Oct 2010   17 comments, latest 10 years ago
Alright, I'll start the inevitable thread on this topic. http://www.calculatedriskblog. Calculated Risk has been saying for months that we had to wait for the Jun-Jul-Aug Case-Shiller numbers (released today ...

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Top 10 investigations and indictments that never got made (2003-2013 edition)
by justme on 15 May 2013   7 comments, latest 11 years ago
Okay, so the Republicons are now having their delicate sensibilities in a twist that the IRS rightfully targeted fake "civic leagues" and "social welfare groups" (created by Tea Party ...

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Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Staggering Cost Differences
by justme on 8 May 2013   13 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ This data is causing an uproar because of the insane spread in billing amounts for the same treatment, as well as the overall high costs. Only the 100 ...

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Bank of America CEO Moynihan: Having the time of my life
by justme on 28 Mar 2013   1 comment, latest 11 years ago
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/t Brian Moynihan is doing a charm tour, including an appearance on the Charlie Rose TV show this week. QUOTE: “Iâ&# having the time of my life” as chief ...

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Health Option One -- scam or not?
by justme on 19 Mar 2011   7 comments, latest 11 years ago
I received a cold call from a salesperson at this company: www.healthoptionone.com Medical, dental, vision $234 (probabaly for the very cheapest age group) As far as telemarketers go she ...

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14 GOP Congressmen Who Think Government Shouldn't Borrow Have Big Debts Of Thei
by justme on 14 Mar 2013   Posted 11 years ago
http://thinkprogress.org/econo Well, well, well. Looks like some of those debt-fearing republicans have been out speculating in, guess what, REAL ESTATE. Here's how Republicans think: Private debt = good (because ...

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PCIP and MRMIP (California) insurance plans -- Part Deux : NO POLITICS
by justme on 17 Feb 2013   6 comments, latest 11 years ago
A recent thread on the Preexisting Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) degraded into pages and pages of political squabbling and very little useful information. I would like to invite everyone ...

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Health Care Blue Book
by justme on 16 Jan 2013   15 comments, latest 11 years ago
Patrick and others have been asking for information on how much a specific medical treatment (procedure) is going to cost. Well, just the other day I stumbled upon several ...

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the all-cash head fake
by justme on 9 Nov 2012   9 comments, latest 11 years ago
http://www.marketwatch.com/sto Not all "cash buyers" really are cash buyers...

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The pros and cons of Personal Health Records (PHR)
by justme on 13 Jan 2012   8 comments, latest 12 years ago
My insurance company would like to use the WebMD Personal Health Records (PHR) system to store all kinds data, including claims and billing information. This got me thinking about ...

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End California Redevelopment Agencies == End Corporate welfare for developers
by justme on 17 Jan 2012   1 comment, latest 12 years ago
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/

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Iceland's New Bank Disaster « naked capitalism
by justme on 11 Nov 2011   Posted 12 years ago
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com

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The Fox News Fear Factory
by justme on 2 Jun 2011   40 comments, latest 13 years ago
Wow, just WOW. You thought Fox News was a bad partisan hack-job? Just wait until you see how the network is actually run. This article gives an inside view ...

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Silicon Valley home sales, prices slump in April
by justme on 16 May 2011   Posted 13 years ago
http://www.mercurynews.com/top

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Kaiser raises rates by 23%
by justme on 27 Apr 2011   7 comments, latest 13 years ago
I just received a letter from Kaiser to the effect that they are raising my rate for the 30/1500 plan from about $530 to about $650 per month, starting ...

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Ireland: birth and death of the celtic tiger
by justme on 19 Apr 2011   Posted 13 years ago
http://globaleconomicanalysis. Note the concept of the NAMA: National Asset Management Association. This is the public dumping ground for the bad loans that the banks made.

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Private gain as a fraction of Public Loss -- Simon Johnson at Bretton Woods 2011
by justme on 12 Apr 2011   3 comments, latest 13 years ago
At some point in time I made a claim along the lines that that for top Bankers or Realtors to make 1 Billion in ill-gotten profits, the public would ...

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Best Bubble Books
by justme on 4 Apr 2011   7 comments, latest 13 years ago
I'm looking for a comprehensive list of Financial + Housing bubble books, both historical and the current 2000-2011 debacle. Please submit lists, and links to lists, and your favorites. ...

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Sutter uses power as health giant to charge higher prices
by justme on 24 Mar 2011   Posted 13 years ago
Here is an article about how Sutter Health in California controls pricing and jacks up prices on medical procedures. The article is about 8 months old at this point, ...

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Do we have NAR-bots on Patrick.net?
by justme on 20 Feb 2011   15 comments, latest 13 years ago
NAR= National Association of Realtors, bots=robots Given that "astroturf", with the meaning "fake grassroot movement", is pretty much the middle name of the NAR, is it likely that we ...

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San Diego home price rally is over
by justme on 10 Feb 2010   8 comments, latest 13 years ago
San Diego is one of the places where there has been  a bit of an uptick last year, especially at the low end of the market. But now ...

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How to choose a primary care doctor?
by justme on 17 Nov 2010   11 comments, latest 13 years ago
New health plan, new facilities, new doctors. How to choose one? I've had several different ones the last 20 years. One worked in a hospital setting and seemed ok, ...

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931 Gates St, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
by justme on 16 Dec 2010   1 comment, latest 13 years ago
This is for sale for 399k: http://www.redfin.com/CA/East- The redfin listing shows previous sale was a 97k at a foreclosure auction, but that foreclosure must be on the 2nd mortage? ...

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931-Gates-St, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
by justme on 16 Dec 2010   1 comment, latest 13 years ago
(moved to Addresses forum, please delete this one)

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Tea Party corruption and flip-flop watch: senator Rand Paul
by justme on 9 Nov 2010   51 comments, latest 13 years ago
It took newly elected senator and super-teaparty libertarian Rand Paul of Kentucky all of one week to be corrupted by Washington. He campaigned (as did all Tea Partiers of ...

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Quantifying the blame: Realtors versus Bankers
by justme on 1 Nov 2010   50 comments, latest 13 years ago
By lucky coincidence, CR has a very interesting post today about real-estate broker commissions as a fraction of GDP. http://www.calculatedriskblog. Brokers' commissions also declined sharply in Q3 as the ...

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GET OUT AND VOTE!
by justme on 2 Nov 2010   26 comments, latest 13 years ago
The title says it all. Having a 40% voter turnout in these hard times is a disgrace. For the country and for democracy.

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High-deductible Health Plans (HDHP) and Health Savings Accounts
by justme on 12 Oct 2010   2 comments, latest 13 years ago
I submitted an application for Blue Shield of California plan Vital Shield Plus 2900 Generic Rx. This plan has a 2700 deductible and a maxOOP (out-of-pocket) of 4900 with ...

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Case-Shiller June numbers are as expected
by justme on 31 Aug 2010   24 comments, latest 14 years ago
As expected, the Case-Shiller Composite 10 and 20 index show a small uptick in June. Â http://www.calculatedriskblog. Â But as Calculated Risk already pointed out a week ago, the ...

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AT&T wrongly blames Obamacare for $1B non-cash writedown
by justme on 26 Mar 2010   4 comments, latest 14 years ago
Give it a day or two for those knowledgeable in accounting gimmicks to figure out how real these  accounting charges are.My guess is that AT&T and others are ...

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Desperate Silicon Valley homeowners are dipping into a nearby income stream
by justme on 10 Feb 2010   24 comments, latest 14 years ago
Apparently it is not "all good" in Sunnyvale and other near-fortress areas of Silicon Valley. Homeowners are renting out rooms to make ends meet.This in stark contrast to the ...
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