…income tends to be used on quality-of-life goods, of which healthcare is the most important. …the economist Robert Fogel, “Just as electricity and manufacturing were the industries that stimulated the…

…take a step back and ask yourself if something has gone a little bit wrong with your life. Ok so I asked myself and I still think that pumping large…

…buries the lede. Basically he has a theoretical disagreement with a mathematician, then speculates about the origin of life, then asks if one can be both a Christian and a…

…in the last month of life alone, and Medicare is roughly 45% of the national health care spend. So all of those patients are clogging up the top end of…

…lifetime, in the case of wealthy people with mostly financial assets. If there is not a good-sized bite out of the estate upon the transfer to beneficiaries, there’ll be very…

…his understanding not from a position of armchair theorist but by doing some serious data analysis of the surprisingly (to us) abundant documentation of peasant work life in Czarist Russia….

…in sfpp seen a correlating increase in the quality of life? Are we three times more comfortable than we were in 1950? Are we three times happier? Could we, perhaps,…

…same table from three different years. A typical retiree in 1980 would have been born in 1915 and entered working life by 1936 and so have been subject to payroll…

…life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life….

By Spencer Madoff is awaiting sentencing. It is a reasonable trade-off, 30 to 40 years of life as a multi-billionaire for spending the last 10-15 years of your life in…