That’s eBay powerseller Brandi Ramos (purveyor of big and tall clothing to men of 52 nations) on the left, and eBay CEO Meg Whitman on the right. I sat with them at the Webby Awards last night, where Meg, Brandi, and a couple of other successful eBay merchants (Lanny and Deena Morton, who sell sporting goods) accepted a Lifetime …
One Fred Jones, in the comments to an earlier post on health care, makes the following claim:
The real problem is not insurance, or lack of it, but the skyrocketing costs of the underlying healthcare itself. Why isn’t young Klein concerned with why doctors are pretty much guaranteed to become millionaires in the US and why they are
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I don’t want to spend my day debating health care with Dick Armey, especially since, as noted previously, I don’t really know what I’m talking about. So I’ll just let young Klein the ever-popular young collectivist E. Klein do the hard work on Armey’s claim that “health care regulations leave us worse off by an amount equal to 11 percent …
The family went and had breakfast with the frogs this morning at the American Museum of Natural History. You couldn’t actually eat in the room with the frogs, but we did get to see some of the frogs being fed a nutritious (if probably not locavorean) meal of fruit flies and crickets. The photos are so tiny because if I ran them any …
I’ve been hesitant to post much about health-care reform in this blog, because compared with people like Maggie Mahar and Jonathan Cohn and Tyler Cowen and Brad DeLong and the younger of two perfectly good Kleins, I just don’t know very much about health-care economics.
But I’ve learned from reading the exchange between Joe Klein and …
I have joined the rotation of regular commentators on PBS’s Nightly Business Report. Or maybe I should wait until they actually ask me back to say that. In any case, my commentary on China and its currency-manipulating ways (which I defend) is scheduled to air tonight. The show is on WNET in New York at 6:30, on KQED in San Francisco at …
The you-gotta-love-hedge-funds argument, espoused by the likes of Sebastian Mallaby, rests heavily on the assumption that hedge funds spur important innovations that in turn make our economy better, stronger, faster. Here, from the FT, is striking evidence of such innovation:
At least one US hedge fund is refusing to take on new partners
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Princeton, New Jersey, Saturday night. Not taken with my cameraphone. (My brother, appalled at some of my past photographic efforts in this blog, has just sent me a copy of National Geographic’s The Camera Phone Book: How to Shoot Like a Pro, Print, Store, Display, Send Images, Make a Short Film. Thanks, Harry! I’ll get to work on …
As part of this week’s continuing series on my son’s friends’ siblings in the news, here’s an interesting story from today’s NYT:
When Olivia Lara-Gresty saw the metal detectors at the entrance of Middle School 54 on the Upper West Side, she turned around and ran home to ditch her contraband before joining her sixth-grade class.
The
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Former Intel boss Andy Grove has a letter to the presidential candidates in the latest Fortune. An excerpt:
Your staff is probably working on a big, ambitious plan to fix health care.
Depending on whether you lean left or right, it’s either a universal health-care plan or a way to increase market influence throughout the health-care
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My latest column is in the issue of Time with an ice-cream sundae on the cover and online here. It begins:
In January 1981, as gasoline prices set all-time highs in the wake of the Iran-Iraq war, oil giant Exxon announced that it would pour $11 billion into capital investment and exploration over the course of the year. That was a 35%
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Gas prices are high at the moment, the highest they’ve been (adjusting for inflation) since all-time records were set back in 1981. Crude oil prices are high, too, but they were even higher last summer.
What’s up with that? The word on Capitol Hill is that refiners and gas retailers are gouging us–the House even passed a bill last week …
