thought experiment

Defending Innovation Practice Models

DB asks those knee-jerking nay-sayers to stop and ask themselves why would they object to a win-win model for patients and physicians.I urge these authors and their ideological colleagues to look...

Online health information

Jay Parkinson follows up the controversy with a thought experiment.

Mysterious Ways

I’m getting kind of sick of being told that god works in mysterious ways. Usually after some horrible tragedy that can’t otherwise be explained by the religious world-view. You know, it’s just...

Understanding Trade Deficits, Imports and Exports

Go read Why we trade by Russell Roberts, professor of economics at George Mason University and a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is the host of the weekly podcast...

If this is what Federal receipts look like at full employment...

...then a balanced budget is far off.The CBO released its November budget review yesterday. In this figure, the red dashed line (receipts) is slowing its ascent. Expenditures are falling, but to the...

The Friday Political Thread: Dead Hippie Edition

- Republican Bobby Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana in a landslide--the state's first non-white governor and the nation's first Indian American governor. Expectations are very, very high.-...

Guidebook Mania!!!! Catch It!!!

Ah yes, October. The air gets a little crisper, the leaves on the trees turn colors, and restaurant publicists everywhere salivate over the 2008 restaurant guides that start hitting their desks. It's...

a week in someone else's mind

This was the poetry I wrote that got me a call from the student health services. It's a thought experiment, trying to get into the head of someone suffering from depression. I'm putting this up here...

An Objective Analysis of Telekinesis

Introduction This is going to be an objective, pseudo-scientific analysis of telekinesis and the whether it's possible or not. Of course, I'm going to be using some sketchy and loosely--in...

Should the Fed Ease For the Sake of the USD?

Kudlow, and a few others have chimed in on how having the fed ease would be good for the economy and the strength of the dollar. Since I thought that this is an interesting thought experiment and why...