California Inequality and the Limits of Redistribution
Michael D. Tanner andKelly LesterA recentstudy from the Urban Reform Institute is sounding an alarm about rising inequality and decreasing upward mobility in California. In fact, the report found four of the nation ’s top ten worst metro areas to live in for upward mobility for African‐Americans and Latinos are in California. Those regions include Los Angeles, Stockton, San Francisco and Bakersfield for African‐Americans and Santa Rosa, Los Angeles, Stockton, and Modesto for Latinos.The study goes on to point out that minority populations are disproportionately likely to live in poverty and are far less likely ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Michael D. Tanner, Kelly Lester Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 14: Fear Itself (Conclusion)
Conclusion)_____________________[1] See,inter alia,Pindyck (1991),Dixit and Pindyck (1994),Bachmann and Bayer (2013), andStokey (2016).[2] One wonders, for starters, about the index ’s failure to allow for approximate synonyms for “uncertainty” and “uncertain,” such as “fear,” “fearful,” “afraid,” and “worried,” as well as phrases like “low business confidence.”[3] The Harrison and Weder model also predicts a less severe decline in consumption than actually took place.[4] In his figure, Mathy transposes the dates of the Anschluss and Munich Agreement.[Cross ‐posted from Alt-M.o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 12: Fear Itself
George Selgin" This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. …[T]he only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "—FDR, in his first inaugural address." There is no place for industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain. "—Thomas Hobbes, on the state of nature, inLeviathan.Not the Sum of its PartsSo far, I ' ve tended to look at the New Deal as a set or sequence of distinct government policies and programs, remarking on how each either contributed to or hampered economic recovery. I ' ve also dealt only with those New Deal policies generally understood to have had promoting recovery...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 14, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 11: The Roosevelt Recession, Continued
George Selgin" Massive jolts of New Deal spending had stopped the economic slide, [but the economy crashed again when] over two years, FDR slashed government spending 17 percent. " (From a 2011NPR presentation.)Inthe last installment of this series, I discussed the hypothesis that the 1937 collapse resulted from an ill-conceived tightening of monetary policy to which both the Fed and the Treasury contributed.While authorities differ in the degree of responsibility they assign to each, there ' s widespread agreement that, between them, instead of merely extinguishing a boom, as they intended to do, both Fed and Treasury off...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 2, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 1st 2021
This study may have important implications for preventing cell senescence and aging-induced tendinopathy, as well as for the selection of novel therapeutic targets of chronic tendon diseases.
Our results showed that the treatment of bleomycin, a DNA damaging agent, induced rat patellar TSC (PTSC) cellular senescence. The senescence was characterized by an increase in the senescence-associated β-galactosidase activity, as well as senescence-associated changes in cell morphology. On the other hand, rapamycin could extend lifespan in multiple species, including yeast, fruit flies, and mice, by decelerating DNA damage ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Economic Research on Treating Aging to Extend Healthy Longevity
In one sense, there is an enormous wealth of research on the economics of longer lives. This is a byproduct of the operations of sizable pensions and life insurance industries, dependent as they are on successfully predicting future trends in life span. On the other hand, outside this somewhat narrow scope, most concerned with the gain of a tenth of a year here and the loss of a tenth of a year there, there is comparatively little economic work that is directly tied to the research and advocacy communities engaged in trying to treat aging and greatly lengthen healthy human lifespan. That will change as the longevity indust...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Government Spending Could Top $9 Trillion
Chris EdwardsPresident Biden ’s push to spend another $1.9 trillion on economic relief is surreal given that government budgets are vastly ballooned already. Total federal, state, and local government spending soared from $6.8 trillion in 2019 to $8.8 trillion in 2020. That is $68,000 in government spending for every househo ld in the nation.We have already imposed $6 trillion in new debt on future taxpayers in just two years. More spending would be reckless and extremely unfair as young people will have their own costs and crises to deal with down the road. Vaccinate people, repeal shutdown mandates, and the economy wi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 26, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Global Supply Chains and Economic “Resilience”: (More) Evidence from the Pandemic
Scott LincicomeThe last few months have providedseveralcounterexamples to the trendy claim that “re‐nationalizing” global supply chains for essential goods would have bolstered the United States’ economic “resilience” during the pandemic (and thus is a necessity in the future). As I explain in a forthcoming paper on trade, manufacturing, and national security, these claims ne ver made much sense: “greater trade and investment openness might make an economy more vulnerable to external supply or demand shocks, but it also helps reduce a nation’s vulnerability to (and improve its recovery from) domestic...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 20, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 11th 2021
This study demonstrates the potential of a natural (o-Vanillin) and a synthetic (RG-7112) senolytic compounds to remove senescent IVD cells, decrease SASP factors release, reduce the inflammatory environment and enhance the IVD matrix production. Removal of senescent cells, using senolytics drugs, could lead to improved therapeutic interventions and ultimately decrease pain and a provide a better quality of life of patients living with intervertebral disc degeneration and low back pain.
From Ying Ann Chiao of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: Mitochondrial dysfunction plays a central role in aging and cardiovasc...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 10, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
6 Ways to Make Your Diet More Sustainable in 2021
We’ve just had the warmest decade on record, with 2020 being one of the warmest years ever. Unfortunately, there is no indication that climate change will slow down in the next decade.
We are all in the same boat here, and it’s in our hands to stop it from sinking. And it all starts with food, production of which accounts for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The good news is that it's not only up to governments and large producers to help reduce global warming. Each of us can do something to support the environment - and human health along with it.
The World Health Organ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ieva Sipola Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement goals pickthebrain resolutions sustainable living Source Type: blogs
Understanding the impact of Brexit on health in the UK
This report maps out the health areas that will be affected by the exit from the European Union and discusses the dilemmas faced by the health sector in the face of legislative changes. It suggests that new barriers to migration, an unknown level of disruption to medicines and devices, a prolonged economic slowdown and barriers to investment in science could impact the health sector almost immediately.ReportNuffield Trust - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 23, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Brexit Source Type: blogs
Canada Fiscal Record Not Supportive of Keynesian Theory
Chris EdwardsCongress is debating another aid package for the states and private sector. Further aid for the states is a bad idea. Aid for small businesses makes more sense, but a better approach would be for state governments to end mandated shutdowns which are starving businesses of revenues.Many economists are saying that more federal aid is needed to boost GDP. But, as notedhere, GDP shot up in the third quarter even as government spending fell.Canada ’s experience in the 1990s also does not support the Keynesian idea that higher government spending boosts growth. Canada cut spending in the mid‐1990s and its...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 14, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Women Are Leaving the Labor Force in Record Numbers
The economic downturn during the pandemic is affecting women workers measurably harder than men. There were 2.2 million fewer women in the labor force in October 2020 than there were last October. Investing in child care and expanding labor laws could keep women employed and buoy the entire economy. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 24, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Kathryn A. Edwards Source Type: blogs
Why Romanticized Love is Destroying Relationships
Divorce rates are currently at 40-50% in the US and even higher for subsequential marriages.
Marriage satisfaction is 58%, so something is not working.
What has gone wrong?
Love is the top reason for people getting married in the USA.
But where did this come from?
We have to start with a history lesson, so buckle up.
Throughout history, marriage used to be an arrangement created to promote the family unit's survival and safety.
The industrial age changed all that.
As safety increased and resources became independent of the tribal collective to survive, individuality took form.
They didn't rely on...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Thomas Westenholz Tags: featured happiness psychology relationships self-improvement love marriage relationship advice self improvement Source Type: blogs
What Will Shape Joe Biden ’s Health Care Agenda?
I’m thrilled to have health futurist Jeff Goldsmith back on THCB, and given Biden was only confirmed as President-elect this morning, his article on what to expect is extremely timely!–Matthew Holt
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
The Trump administration’s health care journey began with a trillion dollar near miss–the failed Repeal and Replacement of ObamaCare- and ended with a full-on train wreck, the catastrophically mismanaged COVID epidemic that will have claimed 300,000 lives by the time he leaves office. After four years of posturing and lethal incompetence, it will be a relief to see caring and pr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy OP-ED Politics THCB ACA Biden Jeff Goldsmith States Unions Source Type: blogs
