Is gasoline now more expensive for consumers than it was in the 1970s (as claimed by, among others, the author(s) of this article in the most recent issue of The Economist)? Adjusting for inf...
1. Leopard vs. crocodile
2. How easy is it to disappear?
3. "Lifestreaming"
4. The real Panopticon?: "Subjects tested in a room with a mirror have been found to work harder,
to be more helpful...
Some of them. Buy this stuff! Overall it looks like a net subsidy to toy-loving, camera-loving nerds and a tax on commuting parents with large families.
Hat tip goes to Patrick Appel.
Here are the data, based on one study; I am surprised that psychology is "tops," with a 58.7% rate of political correctness. The other "winners" are not hard to predict, though "art" comes in...
Here is one interesting proposal for reforming Medicare:
Each fee is meant to reimburse the doctor for the time and skill he
or she devotes to the patient. But it is also supposed to pay for
overh...
But the US won't do it, out of arrogance. So instead, it will collapse. Article by Pat Buchanan.
Jacob Steelman on the legacy of central banking.
Mr. Yu’s daughter had died in a cascade of concrete and bricks, one
of at least 240 students at a high school here who lost their lives in
the May 12 earthquake.
Mr. Yu became a leader of grieving ...
From Ottaviano and Peri:This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native
workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on
national labor markets for workers...
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