Fed Nixes Narrow Banks Redux

J. P. Koning at AEIR writes well on the Fed's efforts to quash narrow banks, more clearly than my previous efforts here   here and her...

An Apocalyptic View of Central Banks

In the department of genuinely terrible, and terrifying, ideas, I just got the a request from Simon Youel, the Media and Policy Officer at P...

Customizing the Hover Window to Fit Your Needs

Most of you are probably familiar with the Hover window in the Dentrix Appointment Book. When you hover your mouse over a particular appoint...

Cost divergence

Source: Marginal Revolution This lovely picture is from  Why are the prices so D*mn High ? by Eric Helland and Alex Tabarrok. (It...

Refreshing YIMBY at NYT

Farhad Manjoo writes an excellent YIMBY (yes in my back yard) essay in the New York Times, remarkably placing the blame squarely where it b...

Using the Appointment Checklist

Do you ever have this happen in your office? The hygienist wants to know if you have received X-rays from her new patient’s previous dentist...

'Free cancer test' scam hits Spokane

Last month, we warned about a new scam targeting people on Medicare that's related to genetic testing and cancer screening tests. The sc...

Clemens on minimum wage

Jeff Clemens offers a "roadmap for navigating recent research" on minimum wages in a nice CATO policy analysis .  A review and a d...

OIC impersonator contacting auto collision victims

We recently received a report that a marketer is making calls to people who have been in auto collisions impersonating the Office of the Ins...

Two Videos

My Hoover colleague Russ Roberts just finished a nice video on inequality : Among other takeaways, he stresses that the people who were ...

Using the Search Payments Tool

Has this ever happened in your office? Mary Jones comes in for a return appointment following her cleaning last week. She says she made a ...

Almost sane housing supply

California, despite being a one-party state, is actively debating SB50  that would over-ride local zoning laws and allow construction of apa...

Free Solo and Economic Growth

We recently watched " Free Solo ", the great movie about Alex Honnold's free (no aids, no ropes) solo climb of El Capitan. Amo...

Financial Inflation?

Torsten Slok sends this lovely picture of the S&P500 and the price index for portfolio management and investment advice services. Torst...

Rent Control Poem

"kevinsch" posts an remarkable essay on rent control on a  Seattle city council blog (HT Marginal Revolution ). I’m not an econom...

Jenkins on ACA

Holman Jenkins "Obamacare is popular because it failed" from a week ago is worth savoring and has an interesting new idea. On O...