Topic: Linda Bilmes

9/11 + 10. Terror’s Toll

Big Think - 162 days ago
Don't fill in this field Risk: Reason and Reality Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . As the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001 nears, many are...

Study: vets' health costs could top $900 billion

AP News - 502 days ago
Study: vets' health costs could top $900 billion; lawmaker wants to set up trust fund to payA new study estimates that health costs for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans could top $900 billion, and a lawmaker wants to set up a trust fund ...

Books of the Year - Sam Leith

Spectator, The London - 1175 days ago
Richard Price's meaty and fabulously enjoyable police procedural, Lush Life (Bloomsbury, 12.99), is a book I have pressed on a lot of friends. The new Robert B. Parker, Rough Weather (Quercus, 16.99), is bliss, too, because it has Spenser ...

War Profiteers

SmartMoney - 1404 days ago
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM has entered its sixth year. It will draw $3 trillion from the public's purse before it's done, say Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and Linda Bilmes, a Harvard government finance expert, in a new book. Whether ...