Data USA is a great place to access data for people who are thinking about where to go to college, what kind of major/career to investigate, and where to live after graduation. For example, my boys have been most interested…
Yearly Archives: 2018
Why are doctors willing to display ignorance of basic health economics?
In the Atlantic magazine, Rena Xu recently published an essay arguing that “electronic medical records and demanding regulations [are] contributing to a historic doctor shortage.” Although there are some grains of truth in the article, it is bullsh*t because it…
Posted in Health
New Monetarism as a third way beyond Hayek vs. Keynes?
David Glasner is a conservative economist who greatly admires Hayek and even thinks that Hayek’s macroeconomic theories have some merit even if they are weaker than many other theories. He is part of a small band of conservative economists that is…
Posted in Macro
The biggest health achievement in the United States in the last half century?
Kristof @ NYT: Let’s break for a quiz: What was the biggest health care breakthrough in the last 40 years in the United States? Heart bypasses? CAT scans and M.R.I.’s? New cancer treatments? No, it was the cigarette tax. Every…
Posted in Health, Millionaire Superheroes
Drinking culture in Central America is the opposite of what you see in the US on Cinco de Mayo
I spent last fall in Guatemala, so I was surprised to discover that Guatemala has about the lowest per-capita alcohol consumption of any predominantly Christian nation. Latin America actually drinks less than the rest of Western Civilization and outside of…
Posted in Globalization & International, Health
Many whites are uneasy about becoming a minority in America. It isn’t happening. They should relax.
The media tends to use the narrowest racial definitions in order to stoke anxiety because that brings readers, but those definitions are arbitrary and more inclusive racial definitions are more accurate because the biggest growth is the rise in interracial…
Posted in Discrimination, Labor
Would universal health care boost growth in developing nations?
The Economist Magazine argues that the entire world should adopt universal health care because universal health care is both desirable and possible, even in low-income countries. Some countries achieved near-universal coverage when they were still relatively poor. Japan reached 80%…
Posted in Development, Health
Medianism 