For those of us who have been privileged to contribute to that service, and to have benefited in the process from Ms. Forbes' nurturing, mentoring, and occasional tough love, wecanonly pray that just one voice will be stilled by her death, not that of many others.
An economy canonlybe in equilibrium (whether we are talking about a market based one or a planned one, a communist one or a capitalist one) if technology is static.
And what the data show is that not only are there big differences around the country, which we already knew, but often there canbe huge differences between hospitals only a mile or two from one another.
The only thing wecanbe sure of is that the recovery since 2009 has been worse than the recoveries from every one of the various recessions listed above.