Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Economics puzzle

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Some choice quotes from a report tweeted by Felix Salmon: We researched the 100 U.S. corporations that shelled out the most last year in...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

A different point of view on Michael Lewis

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See here . My favorite part: Yet, Germany is a prosperous and pleasant nation to live in; one of the best in the world. Germany mana...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

More Freakonomics causality

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I tuned in to APM's Marketplace recently and heard the following from Stephen Dubner : Since the introduction of the ultrasound in Asia...
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"Picked so green you could kick them to market"

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That was the dismissive phrase my paternal grandfather used to describe some of his fellow farmers back in the Rio Grande valley. By picking...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

As problems go, that one really is pretty fundamental

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From Forbes via Salmon: “Groupon’s fundamental problem is that it has not yet discovered a viable business model,” writes Harvard Busine...

More from Salmon on Dalberg

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I'm not surprised when a slick consulting firm like Dalberg turns out to be better at spin than they are at purported job, but I am cau...
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From the New Republic. Seriously.

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Here's the actual, honest-to-God headline: Rick Perry Is a Higher-Education Visionary. Seriously. I'm way too busy to give th...
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Medical Free Markets

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This is a very interesting post by Karl Smith : Lack of jobs is why everyone feels bad, not because they have less or are poorer or the c...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

More on Medicare

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I had barely finished my last post when Austin Frakt presented the hard numbers: All told, the cost to the system of raising the Medi...

Medical Expenses

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From Igor Volsky : The Center On Budget and Policy Priorities’ (CBPP) Paul N. Van de Water is out with a new report warning lawmakers on ...
Monday, August 22, 2011

More on the vanishing business of writing

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Andrew Gelman has a good response to Jonathan Rauch's anti-blogging blog post but I think this section deserves extra comment: Pace...

Never give money to a company that has a Director of Thought Leadership

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Felix Salmon adds some sharp commentary to Janet Reitman’s Rolling Stone article on Haiti. He also reminds us of just how flaky the cons...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Is there a demographer in the house? -- Texas edition

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With the population growth of Texas in the news (see Krugman and Salmon ), this seems like a good time to raise a question that's been ...

Options have a cost associated with them

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This observation bears repeating : First, a lack of alternative opportunities can force us to concentrate on developing skills. The kid ...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

Medicare versus Social Security

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I hear this point a lot: At any politically plausible margin, it makes more sense to take $1 out of Medicare than to take it out of Soc...
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