…a new cancer drug should be covered if it costs $250,000 a year and extends life expectancy for someone with stage 4 cancer on average from 24 months to 26…

…on Tuesday revealed plans to slash 30,000 jobs. Chemical maker Dow said it would be reducing its workforce by 3,000.” – “U.S. Life Expectancy Hit an All-Time High in 2024,…

…as “a healthy democracy.” The number rises to only 12% among self-identified Republicans. I wanted to end this review on a positive note, and the latest report on U.S. life expectancy from…

…since the previous cyclical peak (see table in reference of post). (Note: I differentiate “recovery”, or regaining output lost, from “expansion”, or growing beyond the previous cyclical peak, in this…

Richard Epstein: Peak Dishonesty, Econospeak Epstein is the doyen of libertarian legal theorists. Larry Tisch Professor of law at NYU and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, he has…

Real personal income has completely made up its recession losses, now exceeds pre-recession peak The last of the 4 monthly coincident markers for whether the economy is in recession vs….

…it. Still, at $67,521 it was still 40% higher in nominal terms than it was at the peak of the housing bubble in 2006, when it was $48,201: Below I…

…effect on subsequent ones, even of Delta. So, will the same pattern continue this autumn and winter, with the Midwest peaking now and other regions peaking two weeks after Christmas…

…150,000, only 30,000 above their level just before The Omicron wave started, and about 10,000 less than their Delta peak: The Omicron wave has been almost completely symmetrical. Cases started…

…compares successive peaks and troughs of subsequent waves with that respective peak and trough. Note that, with one exception (hospitalizations due to Delta at peak), hospitalizations rose less and fell…