r < g

r<g is an essay on the question whether r<g means the government can borrow and not worry about repaying debts. No.  Abstract: A si...

Fiscal theory of the price level draft

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level  is a book I'm writing on that topic. It now has a full draft, here .  Comments, typos, suggestion...

Customizing the Dentrix Appointment Book for Optimum Workflow

Because we are all individuals, we each have different opinions and prefer different things. This also applies to the way you work in your o...

Econtalk on virus

About a month ago, Russ Roberts and I had a great conversation about virus, vaccine, and tests for the Econ Talk podcast, and the free marke...

Lipson on basic decency

Why are people gloating over Rush Limbaugh’s death?  Charles Lipson writes   The gloating over Rush Limbaugh’s death ought to shock the co...

Institutional culture

Arnold Kling has an intriguing series of blog posts  on the nature of universities and other institutions that are, as he says, cancel-bait....

3 Ways You Can Get the Most Out of eDex

eDex is a feature in Dentrix that can be used for several different purposes in your office. It can be used to store contact information for...

Vaccine math. $500 per shot?

I'm reading up on the $1.9 trillion "stimulus." This caught me eye :  Biden's plan would set out $160 billion for a nati...

Test snafu

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a $5 test that works in minutes, and can find asymptomatic people who might transmit covid? Imagine ho...

The wages of stimulus

  Discussing stimulus, a colleague passed along a factoid -- wages and salaries, he said,  are running $20 billion a month or $240 billio...

Inflation issues

  In analyzing whether inflation is coming, Mickey Levy at Berenberg Capital passes along the above graph. These are price indices, so t...

Do More Than Just Search for Payments

 The Search Payments feature in the Dentrix Ledger is a topic I’ve mentioned before in this blog. However, I’ve recently had many questions...

A modest proposal for vaccine rationing

A mid-20s child of a good friend just got the vaccine. Why? He runs a micro-brewery, which his state deemed "essential," because i...

Showing Appreciation for Your Team

As the Super Bowl is approaching this weekend, it makes me think about playing on a team. In football there are players who score touchdowns...

Trading halts and game over

David Battan writing in the WSJ brings come clarity to Robin Hood's trading stop.  It raises some questions for me, however. Much of th...