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I’m Not Here

Nor is Cate Blachett playing me. (Nor, unfortunately, am I using this as an opportunity to post a picture of Ms. Blanchett in an attempt to troll for links. You…

Medical Innovation in the USA

…in research and development. I haven’t seen a convincing rebuttal, though there may well be one. Links? NIH is a 3 letter response to argument number 3. The USA does…

An imaginary conversation with my family doctor

by reader Denis (lots of links) Me: $1.2 million is the average income for top 1 percentile households (2006 figure). You must have made at least a couple of million…

McMegan, Discrimination, and Inappropriate Loans

…after source after source brings up a problem, dismissing it out of hand begins to look like bigotry and callous indifference instead of honest disagreement. [links from original] Go Read…

Financial Innovation and Crises

…Atlanta, which sponsored a conference of that name, hosted by David Altig of Macroblog fame (and now an SVP at the Atlanta Fed). Here is the page for presentation links….

Undercover in Burma

…money in such things. Update: (links by MG) rdan here: Look for the jade mines (juan) and the danger the gas pipelines represent to these people (MG). About me Ryan…