FiveThirtyEight p-hacking

 A correspondent sends me the lovely FiveThirtyEight site,  on how to p- hack your way to scientific glory .   Should I be proud or asham...

Making a Partial Insurance Payment vs. Splitting a Claim

In Dentrix G7.5, a new feature was added allowing you to post a partial insurance payment to a claim. With this new feature, you can post a ...

Inequality/opportunity survey

I was interested by a simple survey run by the Archbridge Institute  on attitudes regarding inequality vs. opportunity, and  equality vs. eq...

Treasury holdings

 Another great graph from Torsten Slok at Apollo Foreigners hold less, Fed holds more. However, the Fed doesn't really hold Treasurys...

Hope for California -- housing edition

 California has at last passed the first laws overturning some residential zoning restrictions. WSJ coverage here .   From the California Y...

Using Dentrix To Track Team Member Tasks

When it comes to training your team, it's important to hold them accountable for mistakes and document areas where they need to improve....

Interest rate survey

Torsten Slok passed on a lovely graph, created from the Philadelphia Fed survey of professional forecasters:  It's not just the Fed,...

Boosters

I was going to write about the FDA's idiotic booster recommendations, and then I found the perfect answer on Marginal Revolution, which...

Debt ceiling modest proposal -- perpetuities

The debt ceiling dance has started again. Read Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in the Wall Street Journal .  A modest proposal: Issue perpe...

Inflation, debt, politics, and insurance at Project Syndicate

An essay at Project Syndicate Inflation in the Shadow of Debt Today’s inflation is transitory, our central bankers assure us. It will go a...

Tips for Presenting Treatment Plans to Patients

How do you present treatment plans to patients in your office? Do you present them by displaying the Dentrix Treatment Planner on your compu...

Inflation in the shadow of debt

The effect of monetary policy on inflation depends crucially on fiscal policy. In standard new-Keynesian models, of the type used throughou...

Sowell on grand movements

A correspondent sends me this gem from Tom Sowell:  This was written in 1995. So no, he was not talking about any of the great causes tha...

Set Up Your Continuing Care System So It Works For You

The Continuing Care module in Dentrix is the tool you use to track when patients are due for recall procedures. But, for continuing care to ...

Climate economics

An essay on climate economics at the National Review .  *** Climate policy is ultimately an economic question. How much does climate chang...