A Better Wealth and Taxes

CATO has put out a much-improved version of my "Wealth and Taxes" series on wealth inequality and the wealth tax. Html here  an...

Handling Staff Changes

Staff changes in your dental practice are inevitable. People move, have life changes, and sometimes, just aren’t a good fit for your practic...

The Elephant's family

David Brooks essay  in the Atlantic  "The nuclear family was a mistake" has a lot of interesting ideas. We used to (1800s) largely...

Grumpy Podcast

We're trying a Grumpy Economist Podcast . The first one talks about my series on wealth inequality and wealth tax . I can't stand...

Health policy wonks and the preservation of human capital

Austin Frakt at the  New York Times  covered an interesting  survey of health economists , revealing their interesting support for the statu...

Health spending

Via the always excellent Marginal Revolution , which has its own commentary,  a splendid Random Critical Analysis post " why convention...

Off the Deep End: Navigating the Climate Crisis & Eco-Distress

No, it's not a joke, or the Babylon Bee, it's a real website at a real top university , which a number of readers of this blog ha...

3 Dentrix Tools To Help You Accurately Collect Payment At Time of Service

I always recommend collecting from patients at the time of service. If you don’t collect from patients when they are seen for treatment, it ...

Supply and demand in local economics

Act 1: If housing is too expensive, allow the supply curve to operate. In a surprising bit of excellent economics,   Conor Dougherty   wri...

Understanding the Reasons Behind Missed Appointments

Last week I wrote about a couple of different ways to handle missed appointments in your office. This week, let’s talk about some reasons...

New paper: fiscal theory of monetary policy

A second new paper: " A fiscal theory of monetary policy with partially repaid long-term debt." By "fiscal theory of moneta...

New Paper -- the fiscal roots of inflation

I recently finished drafts of a few academic papers that blog readers might find interesting. Today, " The Fiscal Roots of Inflation ....

Free Market Health Care

There exists a Free Market Medical Association .  Some quotes from the website: .... innovation in healthcare can only happen when a bu...

Tesla Bubble?

Paul Vigna  in the Wall Street Journal Source: Wall Street Journal "Tesla TSLA -18.51% Inc.’s shares rose 14% Tuesday to $8...