Corporate efforts to innovate health care will be of interest to many

The announcement by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to form a company to contain health care costs for their employees has g...

9 hour railway station

China builds a railway station in 9 hours  (HT Marginal Revolution ). Yes, it's basically a propaganda video, but interesting nonethel...

Don't fumble the Hand-Off

News comments

The tariff and the wall were the big news this week, with some lessons for looming infrastructure. The Tariff 30% on solar cells, 20-50%...

Don't let patients fall through the cracks!

Right answer, wrong reason

Sometimes it is not good to get to the right answer for the wrong reasons. This thought comes to mind reading to recent WSJ articles, Walmar...

National Fellows

Are you a young economist or other professor, and would you like to spend a year at Stanford with no teaching? The Hoover National Fellows p...

In-office Membership Plans . . . tips for success

Health insurers in Washington must cover 12 months of oral contraceptives at a time

Starting this year, health insurance companies in Washington state are required to cover a 12-month supply of birth control pills, rather t...

Preparing for Successful Accounts Receivable

Property tax update

Every now again in writing a blog one puts down an idea that is not only wrong, but pretty obviously wrong if one had stopped to think about...

SALT margins

I think most of the debate misses one of the most important points about the state and local tax deduction -- incentives. Suppose you are ...