Author: John C. Goodman

Wednesday Links

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  • The Doctor Prescribed an Obesity Drug. Her Insurer Called It “Vanity.”
  • Study: There is no relationship between mandating masks in schools and COVID case rates in students.
  • In addition to 14 reasons not to extend the expanded Obamacare subsidies (part of ARPA), Brian Blase gives us a 15th one: the CBO has raised the expected cost by 50%.
  • Experts: masks to deter Covid work; mask mandates don’t work.
  • Are Chinese doctors killing people for their organs?
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    Friday Links

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    After two years plus of hopelessly failed interventions – the World Health Organization is on the brink of officially recommending that all countries adopt COVID-19 lockdowns to do the obviously impossible: “curb COVID-19 transmission.”

    NYT series on Haiti is fake news.

    The genetic lottery: Alex Tabarrok has an excellent review of The Parent Trap.

    A man whose chronological age is 51 has a biological age of only 24.

    While China spurns western vaccines, its homegrown vaccine backfires.

    Can a job be a substitute for faith?

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    Who Pays the Corporate Income Tax?

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    Phil Gramm and Mike Solon in the WSJ:

    the idea that rich capitalists own corporate America is largely a progressive myth. Some 72% of the value of publicly traded companies in America is owned by pensions, 401(k)s, individual retirement accounts, charitable organizations, and insurance companies funding life insurance policies and annuities. The overwhelming majority of involuntary sharers in stakeholder capitalism will be workers and retirees.

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