OK… so the exploration is continuing into the new equation which I am calling “The Cobra Equation” because the 3D curve looks like a cobra. This equation shows promise in its ability to explain the process of the business cycle and to ascertain the utilization of labor and capital near the end of the business […]
Maggie Mahar reviews other blogs on healthcare within the blogosphere Joe Paduda has hosted the newest edition of Health Wonk Review, a bi-weekly roundup of some of the best healthcare posts in the blogosphere. You will find it at Joe’s blog, Managed Care Matters.: Here are just a few highlights: Health IT is still […]
I am working on a new equation and want to pass it along for feedback. The equation is 3 dimensional and simulates the effective demand limit upon the utilization of labor and capital. Here is the equation… Measure of profitability = MFP * ((x+y) – a * (x^2 * y^2) – b * (x^2 + […]
Reader Dan Hirschman, a U-Mich. undergraduate alum and currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology there, wrote the following comment to my post here yesterday titled “What I agree with Richard Kahlenberg about on Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. And what I don’t.”: Dear Beverly, Thank you for the fantastic analysis of this case […]
Don’t miss this, folks. It’s worth clicking through all 16 of these. The captions are priceless for their deep truths. Dog lovers of the blog, unite … in nods and chuckles!
This post is based on the draft bill obtained and posted at wonkblog. It might be changd. The one concession to Republicans (beyond the early September concession that the continuing resolution funds at sequestration levels) is “enhanced” verification of income of people claiming Obamacare subsidies. There are three paragraphs. Paragraph one ust says the PPACA […]
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco published a letter about the labor market. The letter is titled, Gauging the Momentum of the Labor Recovery, and written by Mary C. Daly, Bart Hobijn, and Benjamin Bradshaw. They observe 6 indicators to judge how well the labor market is improving. The 6 indicators are the insured […]
Wow. It looks, from SCOTUSblog’s Lyle Denniston’s report on the argument this afternoon in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, that I was, um … right in saying yesterday and again earlier today that this case is not, at heart, an affirmative action case. The case is really about when a voter referendum can […]
As Dan Crawford posted below, SCOTUSblog linked in its daily Round-up feature this morning to my AB post yesterday about Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, which is being argued at the Supreme Court this afternoon. Dan posted the Round-up paragraph in which the reference appears. It says: Commentary on Schuette comes from Richard […]
Scotusblog Round up quote: Commentary on Schuette comes from Richard Kahlenberg, who in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal argues that “[a] ruling in Schuette that promotes race-neutral strategies to boost minority admissions would reinforce the message the court tried to deliver last term in Fisher v. University of Texas but has largely fallen […]