Robert Murphy on Market Monetarism
George SelginInthe latest installment in his series, " Understanding Money Mechanics, " Bob Murphy takes on Market Monetarism, andScott Sumner ' s case for having central banks practice NGDP level targeting in particular. A commentator there writes, " I hope George S. pipes up to defend MM! Seeing the other side can helps [sic] me to understand the theory better. "Far be it from me to refuse such a request!Murphy devotes much of his post to distinguishing Market Monetarism from both old-time Monetarism and Austrian monetary economics. Much of what I have to say also concerns those distinctions. I hope to persuade readers t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 16, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
This Isn ’ t January ’ s Reality Anymore
The latest news in the world reminds me of this scene from Airplane 2, when a host of problems culminates in panic.
Today the we have the coronavirus spreading rapidly, the stock market plummeting to the point that trading was halted, and the usual sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot making it all worse.
These are uncertain times. It’s hard to predict what the world will be like a few months from now, but people are getting the sense that big changes have occurred and will continue to mount, whether fueled by rational responses to real problems or otherwise. It feels like we’re living in a d...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Source Type: blogs
New Maritime Report Marked by Factual Errors and Dubious Claims
Colin GrabowThe Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments recently released a report on the U.S. maritime sector that hasgarneredconsiderablepraise from the Jones Act lobby. That ’s no surprise. EntitledStrengthening the U.S. Defense Maritime Industrial Base, the report explicitly calls for the Jones Act ’s retention. Overlooked amidst the plaudits, however, are factual errors and dubious assertions that call its endorsement of the law into question. This blog post will lay some of these out.Factual errorsThe report includes a number of factual errors. In this section, I note these incorrect cl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 28, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 23rd 2019
In this study, by adenovirus-mediated delivery and inducible transgenic mouse models, we demonstrate the proliferation of both HCs and SCs by combined Notch1 and Myc activation in in vitro and in vivo inner ear adult mouse models. These proliferating mature SCs and HCs maintain their respective identities. Moreover, when presented with HC induction signals, reprogrammed adult SCs transdifferentiate into HC-like cells both in vitro and in vivo. Finally, our data suggest that regenerated HC-like cells likely possess functional transduction channels and are able to form connections with adult auditory neurons.
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Source: Fight Aging! - December 22, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Brian Kennedy of the Center for Healthy Aging in Singapore
Brian Kennedy formerly headed the Buck Institute, but these days can be found leading the Center for Healthy Aging at the National University of Singapore. The Life Extension Advocacy Foundation staff recently had a chance to conduct an interview, and you should read the whole thing. Kennedy has an interesting view of the field, for all that he is largely focused on calorie restriction mimetic approaches that, to my eyes, are not likely to produce large enough benefits to really change the trajectory of human aging.
Do you consider aging to be a disease or, at least, a co-morbid syndrome?
I think you can ma...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 17, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
No Government Promotion of Homes or Mortgages
Jeffrey Miron andErin PartinFannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored-enterprises that supply affordable mortgages across the country, arecutting back on loans to certain risky borrowers. This appears to come at the direction of their regulating agency, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). This reduction in risky loans may signal that the FHFA is anticipating an economic downturn.Curtailing loans to individuals with low down payments, or those deeply in debt, should lower the risk of mortgage defaults, which were a major driver of the 2008 financial crisis. Thus the FHFA ’s decision is a step in the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron, Erin Partin Source Type: blogs
RSNA 2019 AI Round-Up
Shah Islam
Hugh Harvey
By HUGH HARVEY, MBBS and SHAH ISLAM, MBBS
AI in medical imaging entered the consciousness of radiologists just a few years ago, notably peaking in 2016 when Geoffrey Hinton declared radiologists’ time was up, swiftly followed by the first AI startups booking exhibiting booths at RSNA. Three years on, the sheer number and scale of AI-focussed offerings has gathered significant pace, so much so that this year a decision was made by the RSNA organising committee to move the ever-growing AI showcase to a new space located in the lower level of the North Hall. In some ways it made sense to offe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech Start-Ups AI Hugh Harvey Radiology RSNA RSNA 2019 RSNA19 Shah Islam Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 2nd 2019
In conclusion, T2D impairs vascular function by dysregulated autophagy. Therefore, autophagy could be a potential target for overcoming diabetic microvascular complications.
To What Degree Does Loss of Skeletal Muscle with Age Contribute to Immunosenescence?
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/11/to-what-degree-does-loss-of-skeletal-muscle-with-age-contribute-to-immunosenescence/
Sarcopenia, the progressive loss of muscle mass and strength, is characteristic of aging. A perhaps surprisingly large fraction of the losses can be averted by strength training, but there are nonetheless inexorable proces...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 1, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Chile's Success Story is Difficult to Deny
Ian V ásquezWeeks after a 3.75% rise in metro fares in Santiago, Chile sparked violent protests by a small group of students that then generated more widespread disruption, mostly peaceful mass protests continue. Some observers have seized on the political crisis to make often-repeated claims that Chile ’s free-market model has generated growing inequality and been fundamentally unjust despite having produced greater wealth.Yet such claims are difficult to square with the facts. Since its free-market reforms began in 1975, Chile has quadrupled its income per capita, making it the most prosperous country in Latin America...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 4, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 4th 2019
In this study, we hypothesized that moderately and chronically reducing ACh could attenuate the deleterious effects of aging on NMJs and skeletal muscles. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed NMJs and muscle fibers from heterozygous transgenic mice with reduced expression of the vesicular ACh transporter (VAChT), VKDHet mice, which present with approximately 30% less synaptic ACh compared to control mice.
Because ACh is constitutively decreased in VKDHet, we first analyzed developing NMJs and muscle fibers. We found no obvious morphological or molecular differences between NMJs and muscle fibers of VKDHet and contro...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 3, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Perspective on Longevity Biotech Investment from James Peyer of Kronos BioVentures
James Peyer, formerly of Apollo Ventures and now at the larger Kronos BioVentures, has a range of interesting views on the new and growing longevity biotechnology industry. Apollo Ventures was one of the earlier longevity-focused funds to emerge from the comparatively small community of scientists, patient advocates, and investors enthusiastic to accelerate progress towards the treatment of aging as a medical condition. The presentation here was given earlier this year at the Ending Age-Related Diseases conference organized by the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation.
In the matter of creating new medical therapies, t...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 30, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
3 Secrets To Be Happier Right Now
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lorenzo Tags: featured happiness self improvement mindfulness pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Inside America's Worst Financial Crisis: Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed
Amanda GriffithsThe Cato Institute's newest book,Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder, 1922 –1938 is out now — and it's already getting rave reviews for challenging conventional wisdom on the Great Depression.InGold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed,preeminent monetary historians Thomas M. Humphrey andRichard H. Timberlake deliver a compelling critique of the U.S. central bank ’s once-central theory on monetary policy: the Real Bills Doctrine. Theirs is the first full-length treatise on the doctrine and its formative role in the Great Depression and other monetary disorders of ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 10, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Amanda Griffiths Source Type: blogs
How to Flip a Yield Curve
If the recent yield curve panic proves anything, it proves that, in financial markets, what may start out as a mere statistical correlation, and possibly a spurious one, can become a genuine causal relationship. In particular, if enough people subscribe to a post-hoc fallacy, it may not stay a fallacy for long.A Self-Fulfilling ProphecyIt was, therefore, just a matter of time before the discovery that inverted yield curves often anticipate recessions resulted in the world ’s first yield-curve induced panic. And the distance between panic to recession is no great stretch. Knowing that the curve has turned turtle, and anti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 19, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Who Is Peter Navarro?
The Wall Street Journal’s opinion page created a buzz yesterday with its editorial “A Navarro Recession?” It charged that, if the nation soon suffers an economic downturn, it would be the product of the trade wars President Trump has initiated on the advice of Peter Navarro, director of Trump’s Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. The lede:Multiple reports out of the White House last week say President Trump overruled all of his economic advisers other than Peter Navarro when he decided to impose new tariffs on China. Global and American economic conditions have been heading south ever since, so perhaps we ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 9, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Firey Source Type: blogs
