Thursday, July 6, 2017

Haggling for medical services

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This is Joseph Lawyers, guns, and Money had an excellent pair of articles on shopping for health care, here and here .  I especially li...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Bring red flags, lots of red flags – Part II: Maybe too-good-to-be-true claims might be too good to be true

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[This buzzword-filled and often somewhat patronizing (particularly at the beginning) New York Times Magazine account of entrepreneurs and I...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Copland and Bernstein, plus Cohan rebutted

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Some music for the holiday. Listening to Cohan, it's easy to forget how controversial going to wa...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Bring red flags, lots of red flags – part I: "the Tesla of education companies"

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[This buzzword-filled and often somewhat patronizing (particularly at the beginning) New York Times Magazine account of entrepreneurs and I...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Murphy Apartments

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[Actually, the bathroom analogy does a much better job making a similar point. Damn you, Joseph!] The following is some combination of ac...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

An analogy for self-driving cars

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This is Joseph I see this sentiment a lot with self-driving cars : Many industry observers, yours truly included, believe autonomous veh...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

A hump-day post from Charles Mackay

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I'm rereading Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and I am struck once again by what a fine novelist's eye Ma...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Asking me not to overbill you means you hate children

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I always like to preface these stories of education reform abuse with a reminder that the vast majority of people on both sides of this issu...
Monday, June 26, 2017

The Goop criteria

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There's a lot of good reporting by Beth Skwarecki in this long but never boring expose of the Gwyneth Paltrow pseudoscience empire (whi...
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Friday, June 23, 2017

The sad part is that New York Magazine would probably write a puff piece for it

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Assuming Colbert could line up a celebrity business partner . [If you want actual journalism on Paltrow's pseudoscience, check out this ...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

An evergreen quote

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This is Joseph. I juts ran across this quote by Matt Yglesias  while reading another article : But it is entirely emblematic of America’...

This 2016 post on journalistic homogeneity has just gotten relevant again

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[When reading the overheated coverage of the Whole Foods acquisition, remember that the chain's relatively few locations are heavily c...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Aspect dominance, competitive landscapes, and other reasons why the Amazon acquisition of whole foods may not be that big of a deal.

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Also ran this one in the food blog . First off, let's look at some numbers. [From Wikipedia] National chains     Albertsons LLC - ...
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

The scariest quote you'll see on antitrust this week

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 For reasons I'll try to go into later, I'm not all that worried about the antitrust issues with the Amazon-Whole Foods merger, thou...
Monday, June 19, 2017

An alternate model for the rideshare business

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One of the problems with hype-driven businesses and next-big-thingism is that it tends to drive investments and strategies in questionable d...