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But Congress did ultimately chop off a leg when it repealed the mandate penalties in 2017 — and, despite these predictions, the Affordable Care Act still stands. New federal data and economic research show the law hasn’t collapsed or entered the “death spiral” that economists and health insurers projected. Many experts now view the individual mandate as […]
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The author is Tim Harford, and the subtitle is Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers. My copy just arrived and I am just about to leave town, but I thought I should give you notice. And here is my CWT with Tim, a really fun one.
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1. German soccer team thrashed 37-0 after socially distancing from opponent. 2. AT&T wants to put ads on your smartphone in exchange for $5 discount. 3. “What I think I am nearly certain about,” redux of a 2008 post. 4. New van Morrison protest song against lockdowns. 5. The hardware lottery. 6. Model this Charles […]
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1. Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics. One man’s version of “the real Stephen Hawking story,” including the marital arrangements and rearrangements, told by a former good friend. I am not sure that books such as this should be written (or read), but…this one is pretty good. It also gives Hawking’s […]
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1. Did Covid-19 trigger nostalgic taste in music? 2. The philanthropy of Chuck Feeney. 3. Claims about North Korea and nuclear war. 4. Kanye to the NYT: “He also expressed anguish about abortion, said he didn’t reflexively support Democrats, and asked, “Does anyone at your magazine believe in Jesus?”” (link is NYT as well — […]
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That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: Ideally, a government will wish to publicize the announcement of a vaccine while slow-walking the actual distribution. That way, if there is something wrong with the brew, it can stop distribution before too many of its citizens experience adverse side effects. In […]
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The proportion of the US population in extreme distress rose from 3.6% in 1993 to 6.4% in 2019. Among low-education midlife White persons, the percentage more than doubled, from 4.8% to 11.5%. Regression analysis revealed that (1) at the personal level, the strongest statistical predictor of extreme distress was “I am unable to work,” and […]
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Here is an excellent conceptual survey article by K. Paige Harden, it goes well beyond the usual. Hard to summarize, but here are two good bits: An early study using a DNA-based method estimated the heritability of height to be∼80%,and it noted that this result was “consistent with results from independent twin and family studies […]
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1. Warsaw Ghetto state capacity. 2. Anger increases susceptibility to misinformation. When I see all you “pro-science” types getting mad at the wrongdoers, mostly I get sad and think you are turning your back on your cause. 3. Speculative thread on seroprevalence. 4. What kind of euro-based arbitrage scheme is this!? Sorry W.S. Jevons! 5. […]
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Not well. MPR News: The meeting was slated as a Minneapolis City Council study session on police reform. But for much of the two-hour meeting, council members told police Chief Medaria Arradondo that their constituents are seeing and hearing street racing which sometimes results in crashes, brazen daylight carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. And they […]
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