Google and Ascension look to have shot their medical data project in the head with their flagrant disregard for patient privacy laws.
Read more...Illustrating some ways that so-called economic studies in the political sphere are cooked to sell a point of view.
Read more...Some important findings from efforts to develop a more comprehensive picture of the police use of “deadly force” in the US.
Read more...A short-form debunking of a popular but unsound idea for addressing carbon emissions.
Read more...Uber manages to bleed even more cash.
Read more...Trying to predict the financial future is a fool’s errand, even for a genius.
Read more...A long-form discussion of the randomised approach celebrated in this year’s “Nobel” for economics.
Read more...Why might investors be skittish about Aramco’s oil reserve claims?
Read more...alPERS has made big changes to how it invests, yet the press has barely noticed.
Read more...Why have regulators sat pat as Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google have done deals that look like violations of antitrust law?
Read more...Yves here. Even thought the mainstream media, as usual, duly applauded the winners of this year’s “Nobel” prize in economics, there’s been less attention paid to the recipients than usual and far more criticism, some very measured, others more critical. The winners helped develop and promote an approach to development economics they called “randomized control […]
Read more...A study on Texas turning Medicaid over to private contractors shows mixed results, which is better than most critics would expect. But does this study attribute bennies to privatization that aren’t justified?
Read more...Since impeachment looks likely to stay front and center of the news, how to make sense of polls.
Read more...Central banker Mark Carney argues for green economy gradual transition, Can’t get too much in the way of almighty profit.
Read more...Drug price data in Califorinia shows mind-boggling increases in wholesale prices since 2019. Of course, the industry claims that that information is misleading.
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