The current buzz revolves around a study suggesting increased access to health care by medicaid recipients may actually increase visits to the ER, not decrease them as the White house claims. The people at The Incidental Economist tackle the issues A few thoughts on the latest Oregon Medicaid results, the latest results aren’t actually counter […]
by Robert Waldmann Answering Brad DeLong’s questions Brad asks: There are a large number of serious and, so far, unanswered questions about the financial panic of 2007-2009 and our current macroeconomic predicament. Among them are: 1)Why is housing investment still so far depressed below any definition of normal? 2)Why has labor-force participation collapsed so severely? […]
Update from John Aziz below… I see a Brad DeLong post where he includes a post from John Aziz, which John wrote back in April 2013. The DeLong post is about a savings glut, and the Aziz post points to the rise in savings as a percentage of GDP. But John Aziz wrote… “The actual […]
The cold and snow are getting to me…I found this funny post to share. Whether a student actually wrote this or not, it makes my answers on tests for Physics for Non-majors many years ago pretty lame: When Hell freezes over….
Mike the Mad Biologist leads me to a host of articles on the crazy things going on at Heritage Foundation, especially since former Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina took over as president of the organization. Mike quotes Alex Pareene at length on how the rise of MBAs running both the Foundation (DeMint) and Heritage […]