Thursday, 31 May 2018

Insurance tips for recent college grads

It's graduation season and lots of new college graduates are embarking on their career journeys. Many college grads find themselves need...

Wednesday, 30 May 2018

A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. This old proverb can apply to dentistry. Typically, an office will have patients who have outst...

Lessons of the ELB

I gave a short presentation on monetary policy at the Nobel Symposium run by the Swedish House of Finance. It was an amazing conference, an...

Saturday, 26 May 2018

Jitters

Or, "the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?" Or, "from demand to supply?" An Op-Ed for The Hill with ...

Friday, 18 May 2018

Alexander Hamilton's solar panels

I think I finally have figured out why California is mandating solar panels on top of houses. ( WSJ story here .) As energy, environmental...

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Tracking Production Accurately

I was training in a practice recently where there is one doctor and two hygienists. The hygienists are responsible for reaching a daily prod...

Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Meditation on a trip to the DMV

I arrived at the DMV yesterday at 9 AM. My number came up at 5:45 -- you have to wait anxiously all day as you have 10 seconds to respond to...

Friday, 11 May 2018

Argentina update and IMF

From Alejandro Rodriguez, my correspondent from t he last post We are ***! People are withdrawing funds from fixed income mututal funds (wh...

Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

DB warns of US debt crisis.

"A coming debt crisis in the US?" warns a Deutsche Bank report * by Quinn Brody and Torsten Slok. Source: DB This grap...

Managing Your Valuable Time

Tuesday, 1 May 2018

What's worse than tariffs?

Quotas. This morning's Wall Street Journal  "Trump postpones steel tariff decision.." starts optimistic President Donald Tr...