Hospital Debt Collectors, Walmart Fallout, Semi-Outrageous CEO Pay And More

Monday, May 21, 2012 'Do You Want To Pay Now?': How A Hospital Hounded A Sick Patient No one at the hospital ever said Bruce Folken's medical care would suffer if he didn't pay up, but it sure felt that way. Folken, 62, went to Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville, Minn., on March 23 with high blood pressure, heartburn and a tingling sensation on the left side of his body. The retired sales executive for a greeting card company and part-time tax preparer was terrified he'd had a heart attack or a stroke. The doctors and nurses were great, he says. JPMorgan CEO Keeps Complaining As Trading Loss Eclipses $30 Billion How Cutting Off Unemployment Benefits May Trim Jobless Rate Walmart Shareholders Urged To Kick CEO Off Board CEO Pay Has Become Sort Of Less Outrageous Another Regulator To Probe JPMorgan Trading Loss BLOG POSTS David J. Cross: Facebook IPO Could Create at Least $1 Billion in Property Value The Facebook IPO will only add to the millionaires competing to buy a small number of homes, and it seems inevitable that prices will be driven up. Robert Reich: The Commencement Address That Won't Be Given Members of the Class of 2012, as a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you're picking up today. You're f*cked. David Callahan: Facebook IPO: The Rich Get Even Richer and More Powerful Facebook has transformed how people interact with each other and demonstrated yet again the dominance of American ingenuity. Yet its success also dramatically illustrates problems with the U.S. economy. Six troubling features of the Facebook IPO stand out. Robert Creamer: Romney's Bain Record: Playing By a Different Set of Rules Than Ordinary Americans Mitt Romney and Bain helped to create a new rulebook for the American economy -- one that ultimately helped lead to the economic disaster that came to a head in September 2008. Tom Doctoroff: The Top Ten Myths of Modern China China will not implode. Its road to superpower status will be bumpy, even rocky in parts, but the fundamentals of sustained macroeconomic expansion are in place and, for the large part, enduring. Here are 10 popular misconceptions about China.

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