by Daniel Becker I posted in 7/2009 on the issue of fixing our healthcare system based on the Massachusetts model. The first was Massachusetts is fixing the fixed healthcare system. The second was a followup to the first: Fixing the fixing. Healthcare Deja vu. The issue was that we are dancing around. All the proposals […]
by Mike KimelCross posted at the Presimetrics blog. The inimitable TBogg has a clip from the upcoming movie Atlas Shrugs, Part 1. The book is so long and so interminable that the movie has to be done in three pieces. The clip has to be seen – words don’t do it justice. And while at […]
In order to make this timely I am cut and pasting a note from CEPR pointing to the efficacy of cutting spending in the Social Security through means testing. The MSM and politicians have proposed this and raising the retirement age as answers to ‘the deficit’ crisis, some commenters indicating a ‘tipping point’ of disaster […]
Premier Wen Jiabao made stabilizing prices China’s top economic priority for 2011. Amid the surge in world energy costs, this story didn’t make the front page. However, Chinese policymakers did take their time spent out of the limelight to allow the Chinese yuan to appreciate roughly 0.3% against the US dollar. Chinese inflation is elevated […]
Health Care thought: Cost versus Benefit Sixteen year old Wes Leonard made a dramatic last second shot to win a tournament game for Fenville High School in Michigan. Then he fell on the floor and died from cardiac arrest due to an enlarged heart. Every year young athletes die during and after games, many in […]
James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Testify on Sensible Tax Reform Tax policy was demystified in testimony by Galbraith and Bentsen, Jr. Will Congress listen? Statement by James K. Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin, and Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, […]
by Linda Bealecrossposted from Ataxingmatter Why Tax Law Should be Required of All Law Students We tax profs have a tendency to tell our colleagues that tax law should be a mandatory topic for all law students because there’s nothing that you do that has economic consequences for which tax law isn’t relevant. Whether you […]
by Mike HalasyHealthcare concultant and researcher, PA UPDATE: Part 1 here; Part 2 here. (h/t rjs in comments for the suggestion.)Update 2: Post fixed…Dan Medical Malpractice Reform: Truth in Advertising Needed (Part Three of Three) So in the first two articles we have addressed the historic effects of tort reform using Texas as an example, […]