Quickly Scheduling Appointments Using Initial Reasons and Treatment-Planned Procedures

When scheduling an appointment in Dentrix you can select procedures from the Initial Reasons list or from the Treatment Plan Reasons list—al...

Why stop at 100? The case for perpetuities

Issue 100-year Treasurys,  advocates the Wall Street Journal .  It mentions a short note  deep on the Treasury website  that Treasury’s Off...

Summers tweet stream on secular stagnation

Larry Summers has an interesting tweet stream (HT Marginal Revolution) on the state of monetary policy. Much I agree with and find insight...

Inflation, and history

Phil Gramm and John Early have an excellent WSJ oped on inflation measurement . Many conventional inflation measures are  overstated by ar...

A Few Remarks about Claim Remarks Templates

Do you find yourself writing the same narrative over and over on insurance claims? I’ve found that for some procedures I tend to write the s...

Gold Oped

Now that 30  days have passed, I can post the whole July 18  gold oped in the Wall Street Journal . Some of President Trump’s potential no...

Geoengineering fun

Eli Dourado writes of f our intriguing geoengineering schemes: (HT Marginal Revolution's incomparable links .) 1. Bring back the Wool...

Letter 2 from Argentina

Alejandro Rodrigues writes again from Argentina ( previous post ) "This  graph shows the evolution of peso denominated fixed income...

The Reader's Guide to Optimal Monetary Policy

The Reader's Guide to Optimal Monetary Policy is a snazzy new website created by Anthony Diercks and Cole Langlois at the Federal Reser...

6 Tips for Confirming Patient Appointments

Making sure that patients come for their appointments and arrive on time is an important part of the front office team’s job. Having patient...

Whither the Fed?

Steve Williamson has an excellent long essay, " Is the Fed Doing Anything Right? " on the current state of monetary policy. Why ...

Letter from Argentina

My friend Alejandro Rodriguez, at Universidad del CEMA, sends the following report: Oops we did it again. Macri (the current president) los...

Trade and the Fed

Nina Karnaukh of Ohio State sent along this lovely graph of the 6 month Fed Funds futures around the beginning of August. Read this as the...