Understanding Healthcare

In order to try and understand our current healthcare system, I was told to check out the book "Understanding Healthcare", which I recently discovered also exists as a website. Not only does it explain various facts about our healthcare system, but also important things we should now about our health in general. Some diagrams are better than others but overall a very digestible read.

Global Crisis Timeline

I discovered this timeline of the Global Financial Crisis (May 2007-February 2009) when I was originally researching information on fractional reserve banking. I must confess, I haven't fully studied it or understand everything it's trying to explain, but I find the colors and photos make me want to. I think the two pie charts at the bottom are actually the most telling. In May 2007 the vast majority of the U.S. Federal Reserve assets were composed of securities held outright, where as in February 2009 they only represented a minority of the assets. As I understand it, that means the U.S. Federal Reserve Assets are largely now virtual and not physical (speculative not secure)... more to follow.