Monthly Archives: August, 2013
Summer Job(less)
Employment as a percent of the population is near 1970s levels. That's a lot of unused productive capacity going to waste here in the...
Gold as Good as it Ever Was
It’s hard for many so-called “elite” economists to think about gold as an asset, probably because they’ve devoted so much of their careers to...
After Disrupting Publishing, Internet sets its Sights on Education
The most disruptive force in economics over the last two decades has obviously been the internet. But the revolutions created by the web are...
American Heart Surgery: 67 Times More Expensive than in India
Health care costs are extreme in America, without cost cutting like Devi Shetty is doing with his chain of hospitals in India, it looks...