National Flood Insurance Program
With flood waters inundating so many in the Mississippi River Valley and with spillways being opened to try and midigate the damage further downstream, we turn today to the size of the United State’s...
View ArticleExtended Warranties
An extended warranty is something offered to consumers by retailers either as a service the retailer offers or on behalf of the manufacturer. These extended warranties vary greatly in terms of what...
View ArticleHigh-Deductible Health Insurance Plans
High-deductible health insurance plans have lower premiums than traditional coverage but the insured pays quite a bit more out-of-pocket before any coverage starts. If the deductibles in such plans are...
View ArticleDerivatives
Congressional attempts to regulate the market for derivatives is bringing this market into the news again. Until the financial crash of 2008 the derivatives market was well below the radar of most...
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Medicare Enrollment
Today is the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Today is also the final day of the Medicare annual election period. Only one of these topics lends itself to a market size post. Worth...
View ArticleCrop Insurance
The drought being experienced this year in most of the United States will have an impact on the cost of food in the not distant future. Farmers will have a difficult year, but how difficult? As it...
View ArticleHigh-Deductible Health Insurance Plans
High-deductible health insurance plans are insurance policies in which consumers pay lower monthly premiums, but incur higher out-of-pocket costs when visiting doctors and hospitals. In the past...
View ArticleInsurance Industry
Insurance carriers and those involved with selling and managing insurance policies have seen a slow recovery since the recession. Over the period 2007 to 2012, industry revenue did not keep up with the...
View ArticlePharmacy Benefit Managers
The cost of prescription drugs in the United States is a subject about which there is much controversy. As the Affordable Care Act—or, Obamacare—gets off to a rocky start across the nation, we decided...
View ArticleCatastrophe Bonds
Catastrophe bonds, or cat bonds, are bonds sold by an entity wishing to reduce its liability in the face of catastrophic loses such as the ones being caused by the seemingly increasingly violent...
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