The one-handed economist I read this 1984 book maybe 30 years ago, and I remember that it was a gripping sci-fi tale. I also knew that William Gibson more or less invented the “cyperpunk” genre with this book — his first! I won’t describe the plot, which is quite twisty, or any big lessons learned (it’s fiction after […]
Since 2013, I have been writing on student loans. Just about then I ran into Alan Collinge who has a site on Facebook called Student Loan Justice. If you are not aware, student loans are the most unforgiving type of loan a person can have as a student, a parent, or an adult attempting to […]
Which is BS. Hmmm. It appears what came rather easily in the past is now going to be made more difficult due to political interests rather than scientific knowledge on the issue of Covid vaccines. This has come rather easily in the past. And now, I need a prescription? Did Covid go away? No. It […]
Briefly . . .Ultraprocessed Foods and Cardiometabolic Health. Characterizing foods people are eating today . . . people in the US aged 1 year or older obtain an average of 55% of their calories from eating ultra-processed foods. Maya Vadiveloo, PhD, RD, an associate professor in the department of nutrition at the University of Rhode […]
It is even dangerous in some places. I did go to schools without air conditioning and just fans. It was difficult at times when we got closer to Summer. Then too, we were off from late June till just after Labor Day. We missed the hottest of days. Being in Chicago did not expose us […]
Just read that Rhode Island public radio and public broadcasting will have to downsize, but are far from out of business. That looks to be the case for many blue states and blue cities in red states. You know who will be hurt? Trump voters in rural parts of red states. And not because they […]
– by New Deal democrat The post pandemic period has been an exception to many past relationships. This morning’s data on housing construction raises the issue as to whether housing is going to be included in those exceptions as well. That’s because the data has been classically recessionary for a number of months, and yet the […]
Since the secretary of HHS is a vaccine denialist who cannot be trusted, the American Academy of Pediatrics has this week published its own authoritative, comprehensive, science-based vaccine schedule for children and adolescents from birth to age 18. The link provides: – the schedule for routine immunizations from birth to 18 years of age; – […]
This short YouTube will eat up less than five minutes of your time. I believe Robert is mostly correct in his regard for our current president and a failed Republican party which appears to be bought, sealed, and delivered to do his bidding. The same as in the sixties and seventies, the answer to this […]
32 economists associated with the University of Chicago at some point in their careers were awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, which is often referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics. With all that expertise, you’d assume that the University of Chicago would be a paragon of […]