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 …
In America, it’s all about No. 1. CEOs, heads of state and police chiefs get all the press. No one spends a lot of time thinking about No. 2, the guy standing with his hands folded behind the podium as the star of the show hogs all the spotlight.
I was thinking about this last night as I watched The Sopranos. With Tony’s demise lurking …
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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I had lunch the other day with Marci Alboher, the author of One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success. Her book sprung from her own experiences as a former lawyer-turned-writer/speaker/teacher. Note the slashes; they’re key to her message.
Marci Alboher slashed her way to a new career(s).
“I was in a part of law …
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 …
The second version of the first quarter GDP numbers were released this morning, and they mark the economy down to a 0.6% annual growth rate from the 1.3% rate estimated back on April 27. If that gets knocked down a little more when the “final” version comes out June 28, then ratcheted down even more in the benchmark revision a year or …
Curious Capitalist Jr. has asked me to write a post about his friend’s older brother, Paul Lindseth, who made it to the quarterfinals of the 80th Scripps National Spelling Bee today before meeting his Waterloo in the word “oubliette.” Which apparently means “a concealed dungeon having a trap door in the ceiling as its only opening.” …
