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We're all Keynesians during Republican administrations.

— davidfrum (@davidfrum) May 25, 2012
economics  politics  humor  for-sandra 
11 minutes ago by dairiki
Concerns about the Millennium Villages project report : The Lancet
The above observations imply that a key finding of the paper—that child mortality fell at the treatment sites at triple the nationwide rural background rate—is incorrect. Child mortality fell at 5·9% per year at the sites versus 6·4% per year on average across all areas of the countries in question (probably more in rural areas alone) according to the available data that most closely match the project period. This difference is not significant.
science  medical  healthcare  health  aid  poverty  africa  economics 
4 hours ago by tektrader
Money Is Vanishing From Southern Europe
Several multinational corporations have already taken the same view. Vodafone, the mobile phone operator, and GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceuticals firm, say they are “sweeping” money out of Greece and into British banks each evening. This applies not just to Greece but to most other euro nations, although Glaxo says it still keeps money in Germany.
Something to note is that this is exactly what one of the downsides of leaving the euro would be. If Spain reintroduced the peseta, foreign firms would still sell some stuff to Spanish customers. But they probably wouldn't want to leave many of their profits laying around peseta-denominated in Spanish banks, available as funds for lending to the Spanish domestic economy. Spain would end up capital-constrained and need to spend a lot of time worrying about its foreign exchange holdings. This is a real downside and not just something to gloss over. But the rub is that if you're going to suffer massive capital flight anyway, then the case for ditching the euro gets that much stronger.
economics  finance  news  for-sandra 
13 hours ago by dairiki
Number of the Day: 2
A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the health insurance market in New Jersey for individuals is decidedly non-competitive. Indeed, only two healthcare insurance carriers currently have more than 5 percent of the market for offering insurance for individuals and the largest has 73 percent of the market.
economics  debate  nj 
14 hours ago by casey.chow
Social mobility and social institutions in comparison [Economics for public policy]
in an era of growing inequality, the more unequal societies—like the United Kingdom and the United States—will likely not experience more mobility without concerted and effective public policy addressed not just to inequality but also to how families function, how the education system develops the human capital of relative disadvantaged children, and how families interact with a labour market that is increasingly more polarized
economics  americandecline 
18 hours ago by ouroboros
Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss? -Full Post | The Trichordist
"Too often the debate has been pirates vs the RIAA. This is ridiculous because the artists are left out."
music  technology  internet  business  economics 
yesterday by betajames

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