Sunday, October 12, 2025

Importing Inequality: Immigration and the Top 1%

Data from UK tax records with new information on migrant status to show that that migrants are highly represented at the top of the UK’s income distribution.

Links 9/18/2020

How Hospitals’ Profit Orientation Led to Covid-19 Unpreparedness

How hospitals set themselves to perform badly in pandemic conditions.

It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”

Households and businesses are overloaded with debt. Richard Vague offers a set of proposals for how to restructure it.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/17/2020

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How NAFTA Lost Democrats the South

How the New Democrats’ trade deals fractured the multi-racial coalition that Martin Luther King had helped forge in the South.

Links 9/17/2020

Telemedicine Tales

An MD who has supported telemedicine discusses some pitfalls in the Covid-era implementations.

Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part V – Dark Realities

A libertarian perspective on nobility, democracy, and lobbying.

Thousands of New York ‘Long Haulers’ Struggle with COVID-19 Months After Diagnosis

Some doctors estimate that there are as many as 70,000 “long Covid” patients in New York alone.

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/16/2020

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Demonizing Socialism and “Macroeconomic Populism”: Myths of Soft Budget Constraints

Some econmists have criticized industrial policy as zombie-crearting “macroeconomic populism.” Evidence indicates otherwise.

Links 9/16/2020

Brexit: Snake Eyes

Boris Johnson is pressing his Brexit luck, which wasn’t looking all that hot.

Isolation, Addiction, and Drug Use in the Covid-19 Moment

Covid is rough on pretty much everyone, but those with drug or other substance abuse issues are really on the ropes.