The only way to systemically lower costs is to make prevention and transparency the top priorities. As I have been noting for a decade, the broken U.S. healthcare system will [ … ]
Monday Morning Roundup: More on the Sanctions
North Korea policy is once again careening between competing administration statements. Over the weekend Secretary Tillerson held open the door to negotiations, stating the fact that the US has channels [ … ]
Beware the Facebook, Google and Amazon company town
I want the people who work at Pullman to have the advantages of seeing the best,” Pullman said. “I want no cheap, crude, inartistic work in any department. I have [ … ]
We get it, you did a blog about vaping
I love teasing my friends who use e-cigarettes. There’s something intrinsically uncool about e-cigs – they’re gadgety, a bit silly-looking thanks to their chunkiness and the huge clouds of vapour [ … ]
Moon Jae-in’s Speech at the UN General Assembly
Before piling on President Moon, let’s be honest: he is in an absolutely impossible position. Squeezed between Kim Jong Un, President Trump, Prime Minister Abe, his supporters, and an invigorated [ … ]
Against rural broadband
Society got very excited about the invention of the car. From the 1950s onwards especially, governments around the world began huge road-building projects, bulldozing swathes of cities for huge multi-lane [ … ]
Bill Kristol lies about yesterday, today and tomorrow
The respected American political commentator Bill Kristol is consistently wrong about things, and it’s funny, until you start seeing dead bodies on your lawn. He predicted that Marco Rubio would [ … ]
Hillary Clinton’s What Happened. A no BS review
Before I begin reading any article about politics (or in this instance, can be made political) I look to the author information. Who are they and what is their bias. [ … ]
Airbnb and discrimination
I have repeatedly blogged about discrimination, especially against women and non-whites in labour markets. On raw numbers we often see different outcomes between groups, and since we know that discrimination [ … ]
Save North Korean Refugees Day: Friday, September 22nd
Please see below a note from Suzanne Scholte of the North Korea Freedom Coalition on Save North Korean Refugees Day: Friday, September 22. “Rescue those being led away to death”* [ … ]