Showing posts with label Megan McArdle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Megan McArdle. Show all posts
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Electronic currency

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It seems like Bitcoin is experiencing a bit of a set-back .  It is probably not that surprising that such a strong challenge to fiat currenc...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Climate change and air travel

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I have heard this argument from Megan McArdle before : The question answers itself, doesn’t it? Giving up air travel and overnight delive...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013

A couple more thoughts on Oregon

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Aaron Carroll (writing for the Incidental Economist) points out one interesting result of the new study: Not too long ago, ACA opponents...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

More fun with charts

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Daniel Kuehn and Joseph previously discussed this post by Megan McArdle entitled "Department of Awful Statistics: Income Inequality ...
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Friday, January 4, 2013

Of outhouses and automobiles

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Both Megan McArdle and Matt Yglesias have interesting posts about how important network effects can be to the adoption of new pieces of te...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The perils of 401(k) accounts: a continuing series

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Megan McArdle is back with this observation : The 401(k) I started in the late 1990s, before I went to business school, is worth less tha...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Why I believe in safety nets

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Megan McArdle argues: Who among the parents fighting so hard to get their kids into a good school is going to volunteer to have their kid...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Nice Observation

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This post was hoisted from the comments in Megan McArdle's website and it makes a point that we often forget: the eventual chance of de...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

When a model simply doesn't match reality

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Karl Smith relates a story from Megan McArdle : A woman called me out of the blue last week and told me her self-sufficiency counselor h...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Performance based teaching

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Via Megan McArdle , comes this gem : It would be naïve to assume that the persons subjected to variable pay-for-performance would accept the...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

When a toothache is fatal

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This post by Megan McArdle is absolutely required reading for anybody interested in arguing for true free markets in health care. An excer...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

How to improve health care for the poor

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I really want to make sure that this post from Megan McArdle isn't overlooked in the discussion of the debt ceiling. There are not a lo...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

A surprisingly blunt view of finance

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I really need to blog on a health policy post by Megan McArdle. But in the meantime, here is a surprisingly sane point of view on the debt ...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Implications of not raising the debt ceiling

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Even Megan McArdle is asking hard questions about the debt ceiling and the consequences of paying just interest on the debt, medicare, socia...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Is Megan McArdle abandoning the Chicago School?

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In the previous post , Joseph directed us to this piece by Megan McArdle. As with almost everything McArdle writes, there was much that wa...

Some reflections on student loan debt

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I have a mixed set of feelings about Megan McArdle's Atlantic column. Sometimes I could not disagree with her viewpoints more (mostly w...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Firing Teachers

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Yikes. In the same blog post we have: But I also recognize that this is no panacea. At a minimum, making teachers easier to fire needs to...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Arguments that generalize poorly

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If only Megan McArdle would make the same argument for medical care that she does for congestion pricing : But that brings us to the heart o...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Is geography destiny?

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From the comments in Megan McArdle : It is totally unsurprising that ground zero for the locavore and electric car movements is northern Cal...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Mortgage Questions

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This post had a very perceptive take on a question from Megan McArdle : McArdle: “Let’s turn it around,” I asked. “What if the bank decid...
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