- Over the past two and one-half decades the federal government has buried taxpayers under a mountain of debt, now approaching $38 trillion. During this time the key problem has been spending, not a lack of tax revenue.
- A good explanation of the latest Nobel Prize in economics.
- More on the Nobel.
- Can social connections improve your physical health?
- Hospitals’ ever expanding revenue: Where is the money going?
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Dating, Mating and Marriage in the Age of Aquarius
Numerous articles in the popular press, creators on YouTube and numerous social media websites all claim men are not pursuing women like they used to. Some Christian organizations believe our culture has experienced a decline of manhood and masculinity leading young men to eschew dating and romance. Recent surveys claimed that nearly one-third (~30%) of adult men under the age of 30 are not in a relationship and are not looking. Indeed, another data source claimed 39% of men age 25 to 54 are single.
Tuesday Links
- “The average 12th-grade reading scores are now lower than at any time since [the NAEP] reports began publishing 33 years ago. Once again, top performers merely stagnated, but scores from the lowest performers fell through the floor.” (NYT)
- “Public housing projects [eradicated] healthy black neighborhoods in cities such as St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit and Washington, along with thousands of black-owned businesses, and replaced with housing projects that later became such social disasters that they had to be demolished using explosives.” (WSJ)
- No nation has more rare earth minerals than the US does.
- AARP got $9 billion from UnitedHealth last year.
Saturday Links
- Mike Pence: the Trump Administration’s recent approval of the chemical abortion pill mifepristone is a “profound betrayal of the pro-life movement.” (WSJ)
- Could a vaccine prevent the common cold?
- Nate Cohn: Why health care is not a big political issue. (NYT)
- The Aumann Agreement Theorem.
- Obamacare’s broken promises.
- Hanania on Steven Pinker.
- Can AI reduce administrative burdens, physician burnout, associated medical errors?