Author: John C. Goodman
Saturday Links
- Sales of dog strollers last year outpaced those of baby strollers for the first time in South Korea – home to the world’s lowest birthrate.(WSJ)
- How the New York Times stoked Covid alarmism.
- “Overall, benchmark premiums increased 75 percent between 2014 and 2024—more than 60 percent higher than the premium growth in employer plans during this time.”
- Does Joe Stiglitz deserve the blame for thousands of murders and poverty and misery in Venezuela?
- Taxpayers lose to fraud, fraud and more fraud.
- Means-tested social-welfare spending totaled $1.6 trillion in 2023, absorbing 72.6% of unobligated general revenue minus Social Security, Medicare and interest payments.
Friday Links
- Conventional wisdom holds that it takes 17 years from medical innovation to adoption in the real-world.
- Aaron Caroll on the market for prescription drugs.
- Once applicable to fewer than 500 covered entities, the 340B Program now consists of nearly 13,000 entities, including hospitals, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), and nearly 30,000 contract pharmacies.
- Doctors are using problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day.
- Census Bureau: real median family income is lower today than it was in 2019.
Thursday Links
- Capretta reviews the Einav/Finkelstein book: We’ve Got You Covered.
- Why should people get vaccinated for low-probability risks?
- Matt Ridley: The most lethal industrial or scientific accident that has ever occurred was the covid virus leak from the lab in Wuhan. So why does the scientific community refuse to discuss it?
- Only 14% of federal spending is “discretionary.” Eliminating the federal deficit would require eliminating all discretionary spending plus an 11% reduction in “non-compressible” expenditures (mandatory programs, defense, and interest on the public debt).
- Idaho having difficulty executing a prisoner. Whatever happened to the firing squad?
- There is a reason why the kakapo’s mating habits are so strange.