CNBC had a segment yesterday covering one aspect of terrorism that is not commonly recognized: cyberterrorism. In the process, they touched on some of the issues in our previous post regarding the most recent terror attack on the United States.

Congress and the Obama Administration are considering new policies in the aftermath of the recent terror attempt on a NorthWest flight to Detroit.
In the first place, the stock of major airlines has taken a predictable hit, and ought to trend low for some time. Many airlines are private companies, but publicly traded corporations include Continental [...]

CNBC’s Power Lunch had a short segment yesterday debating the winners and losers of the Senate healthcare bill.

Matt Nesto gave a short report later in the afternoon regarding growth in the healthcare sector.

Both of these videos are very good with specific stocks that are on the way up. We highly recommend that potential investors to [...]

Our original idea, way back in August when we started covering healthcare reform, was that health insurance companies were going to take a huge hit. But over the course of negotiations in the House and Senate, this idea has been turned on its head.
The public option – basically the biggest prospect for “reform” – was [...]

This afternoon, Senator Lieberman delivered a message to many of his Democratic colleagues that carried a distinctly different tone than his other recent statements. An article on The Hill said Lieberman “stopped short of apologizing,” although some Democrats still took it as an apology.
This shift in tone is could very well indicate a new willingness [...]

In order to guarantee the votes of more conservative members of their party, Democrats have offered some sort of complex compromise on the health insurance issue. According to The Examiner:
the compromise included eliminating the controversial public option from the bill. Medicare would be expanded as a “buy in” option for those between the ages [...]

The two biggest schisms in the Democratic party regarding healthcare are abortion and the public option.
Both sides generally agree that they do not want public money to fund abortions; rather it is a question of wording in the bill. While it is possible a compromise here could lead to more and more restrictions, it is [...]

Centrist Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) recently wrote a piece for the Omaha World Herald in which he speaks skeptically about the reconciliation process.
Earlier this year, though, I voted against the 2010 budget resolution, in part because it contained language allowing health care reform to be brought up under reconciliation.
Reconciliation is an extraordinary tool designed to [...]