‘We’re Not Doing That’: Why a Black Couple Wouldn’t Crowdfund to Pay Off Medical Debts
Why black patients burdened by medical debt are reluctant to solicit for funds.
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A New Third World Debt Crisis? The Need for System Change
Emerging economies look to be on the verge of a whole lotta debt hurt. Why does this happen to them so often?
Read more...Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health
A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?
Read more...Abortion Down By Less Than 3 Percent
Why some less-bad-than-expected abortion news is not as good as it seems.
Read more...Fast Food Suppliers Contribute to Increases in BMI and Decreases in IQ
Using Norwegian registry data, this column documents that the increased supply of fast food restaurants could be responsible for as much as 35% of the increase in BMI and 27% of the decline in cognitive ability observed across cohorts born during the 1980s.
Read more...Why Student Debt Is So High
The student loan program is a government-enabled transfer of wealth. How surprising is that?
Read more...Annual Numbers of Excess Deaths in the US Relative to Other Developed Countries Are Growing at an Alarming Rate
America continues to be exceptional, here in our level of excess deaths.
Read more...“Does Economics Do More Harm than Good?”
In a new book, George DeMartino offers some novel and pointed criticisms of economics, focusing on societal damage.
Read more...Thomas Ferguson: Debt Ceiling Theater and the Trump Parallel Universe
Political scientist Thomas Ferguson discusses Democratic debt ceiling fecklessness, Biden’s wobbly coaliiton, and US instability.
Read more...Small Town and Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closing Due to Funding
More pillaging of America, here in hospitals in flyover, where it won’t be noticed much before those practices start moving to the core.
Read more...Biden Signs Off on Restarting Student Debt. Why?
Do student debt concessions prove Democrats are just terrible negotiators? The real reason Party leaders do the debt ceiling dance.
Read more...Why Don’t We Get the Politicians We Need?
Some thoughts about why US and UK politicians are so bad
Read more...As Fewer MDs Practice Rural Primary Care, a Different Type of Doctor Helps Take Up the Slack
Osteopaths are increasingly stepping into the primary care gap produced by MDs who increasingly go into lucrative specialities.
Read more...The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual
Yanis Varoufakis argues that techno-capitalism has fragmented the individual by coopting attention, undermining liberty.
Read more...No Bargain: Big Money and the Debt Ceiling Deal
What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?
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