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Free Market Health Care
According to an Associate Press story filed by Joseph Pisani this past Saturday, Groupon (along with other daily deals sites) is moving into health care. In other words coupon-based marketing is now flourishing, at least on the Web, in areas such...Giving More Credit Than is Due
Simon van Zuylen-Wood has a nice piece on the Web site for The New Republic about Newt Gingrich’s “Earning by Learning” plan for education reform. This is the one that involves giving kids cash incentives for such things as reading books over...Steve Jobs Without the Hagiography
I was wondering whether or not The New York Review of Books would select Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs for consideration and, if so, whom would be assigned the task. The answer can be found in the latest issue (January 12), in which Sue Halpern is...The Vital Antecedent
Continuing the theme of the objective gathering and interpretation of data concerned with human nature, there is a story this morning on the BBC News Web site relating the recent publication of some fascinating results from Princeton: Uninformed individuals...The Potential for Dialog
Whatever we may say about issues, it would appear that the British Parliament is better equipped in argue its way out of economic crisis than is the United States government. One reason may be that none of the Members of Parliament have achieved their...Where the Jobs Are: Government Informant
Associated Press writers Larry Neumeister and Stephen Braun ran a fascinating profile yesterday which is, to say the least (and with a bit of a pun intended), informative. The subject of the profile is 40-year-old Guatemalan Carlos Sagastume, who...The Rich And Mighty are Not Getting the Message
Yesterday’s decision by Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to submit the European Union (EU) bailout package to the Greek voters as a referendum item threw panic into world markets and thoroughly upset the applecart for the G20 summit that is...Selling Out to the Super-Rich?
Once again I find myself returning to Robert Skidelsky‘s abstraction of the basic argument in Niall Ferguson’s Ascent of Money book: Throughout history men have been more ingenious at finding ways to make money than to make things. The latest...
