Opinions change

Source:David Brady and Mo Fiorina My Hoover colleagues David Brady and Mo Fiorina gave a recent talk updating some of their work o...

Tips to avoid Medicare card scams

Medicare has been mailing new Medicare ID cards to Washington state beneficiaries since September and scammers are taking advantage of thi...

End of Year Tasks: Part 3

Financial reform video

Capital, more capital. I did a video interview for the Chicago Booth Review , summarizing a few talks I'm giving this fall. At some po...

ASU forecast luncheon

On Wed Nov 28 I will be giving a talk at the ASU Forecast Luncheon in Phoenix. Blog readers will likely be bored, as I'm going to unapo...

Imagine what we could cure

A WSJ oped with J J Plecs, formerly of Roam Analytics , which does a lot of health related data work. The discovery that cigarettes cause ...

End-of-Year Tasks: Part Two

Regulatory cost disease

A post on Marginal Revolution is so good, I have to quote in its entirety before commenting. From my time in both the military and healthc...

Diabetes & heath insurance: What you should know

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and there are a lot of reasons to be aware of this disease. Worldwide, 425 million adults have diabete...

Quitting smoking can improve your health insurance premiums

End-of-Year Tasks: Part One

It’s the most wonderful time of the year……to prepare for next year!  As the end of the year rapidly approaches, there are important tasks t...

Carbon Tax

Source: Seattle Times " The carbon tax is dead; long live the carbon tax " is the headline of Tyler Cowen's Bloomber...

Europe's Banks

My visit to Europe resulted in many interesting conversations. There was a stark contrast between the complex regulatory vision of formal pr...

Over the Counter Collections

Collecting payment from patients at the time of service is very important. Many procedures we do in the office incur a lab fee and expensive...

State of thought on financial regulation

I'm at a conference on " Financial cycles and regulation " at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Beyond the individual papers, I find th...

Kotlikoff on the Big Con

In preparing some talks on the financial crisis, 10 years later, I ran across a very nice article,  The Big Con -- Reassessing the "Gre...

Cross subsidies and monopolization, explained

I found a beautiful, clear, detailed, fact-based, and devastating explanation of how forced cross-subsidies, monopolized markets, and lack o...