#comp

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#compensate #concentrated #cover #doctors #fallen

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person. ↗

— David Johansen

#dig #got #i #language #like

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. ↗

— Jane Campion

#believe #compulsive #courage #dangerously #ends

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo. ↗

— Jane Campion

#bad #composers #discuss #embarrassing #emotion

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#adverse #because #borrowing #competitive #countries

Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#coming #competitive #decline #delays #demand

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#competitive #could #decreased #dollar #economic

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#competitive #dollar #evening #needs #theme

The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#compatible #competitive #dollar #during #global

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#competitive #deficit #dollar #more #trade