A Better Approach to U.S.-Taiwan Economic Relations
Clark PackardThe United States Trade Representative (USTR) recentlyannounced it would begin formal trade negotiations with Taiwan. Thenegotiating mandate lays out 11 different areas for negotiation, ranging from trade facilitation to labor and the environment. Middlebury College professor Dr. Gary Winslett had a comprehensiveTwitter thread in response to the substance of the announcement, most of which I agree with. Like the Biden administration ’sIndo ‐Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), market access (i.e., tariff elimination/ reduction) is notably absent from the Taiwan announcement, which is regretta...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 14, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
It isn't about one malignant narcissist
David Corn offers a summary of his forthcoming bookAmerican Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy.I ' ll share an introductory paragraph:Both Pelosi and Biden have bolstered the notion that the current GOP, with its cultlike embrace of Trump and his Big Lie, and its acceptance of the fringiest players, is a break from the past. But was the GOP ’s complete surrender to Trumpism an aberration? Or was the party long sliding toward this point? About a year ago, I set out to explore the history of the Republican Party, with this question in mind. What I found was not an excep...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 12, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
“Zuckerbucks” Didn’t Throw the 2020 Election
Walter OlsonIn the lead ‐up to the 2020 election, philanthropies backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan provided grants to local election offices around the country to aid in administrative tasks, voter communication, and other work made more challenging by the COVID-19 pandemic — a program sometimes nicknamed Zuckerbucks. Some Republicans have charged that the grants were improperlymeant to assist Democrats by differentially increasing turnout of their likely voters, especially in bigger cities. Many backers of former President Donald Trump took the episode to heart as part of w...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 12, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 08, 2022 Edition-----In the US we are seeing the outcomes of Climate Change really of and running with droughts and fires etc. Biden amped up the partisan divide with a fiery anti-Republican speech!In Russia the last leader of Soviet Russia died.In the UK we have a new PM while in Europe the energy crisis is just getting worse.In OZ we have survived the Jobs and Skills Summit with 36 prearranged outcomes. Stage management +++ in action. The GP crisis is not being addressed fully and worries regarding the Global Economy - esp. China - worsen.-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/educati...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - September 06, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 01, 2022 Edition-----This week it is all about weather and climate change with floods, heatwaves and droughts in Parkistan, Europe and China. In the US drought is causing all sorts of food supply issues and price rises.In the EU was a seeing all sorts of energy supply problems.In Australia we have a feast of investigations into ScoMo, RoboDebt and so on. Lots to browse!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/us-alliance-fear-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-20220818-p5bat8US alliance fear that dare not speak its nameUneasiness about divided, inward-looking America fulfilling its security gua...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
A Libertarian View on Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy
Walter OlsonHow best can we keep America from entering a constitutional succession crisis or suffering a turn toward authoritarianism? As readers may remember frommy post last month (see also), several of us at Cato contributed as “Team Libertarian” to the National Constitution Center’s essay project “Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy” on this topic. This week the Volokh Conspiracy ishosting a symposium featuring participants, with me writing for Team Libertarian, Prof. Ned Foley for Team Progressive, and David French for Team Conservative. Each of us is starting off with a post laying out...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 29, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Agonistes
Trump has done so much damage and is such a loathsome human being that it ' s easy to justify the anger and hatred that so many feel towards him. But some days I find myself feeling more pity than hatred. Such a miserably insecure wannabe. A hollow man. Pathetic, the way he ' s wrapped his arms around those boxes of files. " Mine! " he whimpers. Proof that he really is important after all. (Source: T. Scott)
Source: T. Scott - August 27, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: T Scott Source Type: blogs
The Mar ‐a‐Lago Search Warrant Affidavit: What It Tells Us
Patrick G. EddingtonDespite the redactions contained in the search warrantaffidavit, there ’s enough there to give us a better idea of the sequence of events in this saga to date.The TimelineBy May 6, 2021, National Archives (NARA) officials began asking Trump and his representatives to return records that were supposed to have previously been transferred to NARA by Trump ’s last day in office. Those requests went unanswered until December 2021, when Trump’s representatives informed NARA officials that 12 boxes were at Mar‐a‐Lago.For reasons that remain classified (per pp. 14 –16 being either largely...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 26, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick G. Eddington Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
August 25, 2022 Edition-----The big story this week has been the multiple PM story in Australia with ScoMo. What an amazing saga!In the UK there seems to be an impending collapse of the economy coming unless some-one takes some really smart steps real soon now.Relatively the US has seemed pretty calm this week – just waiting for an impending recession – along with China and Europe.Fair to say things globally are pretty messy!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/markets/equity-markets/every-investing-trend-misfires-as-stock-bears-are-crushed-20220814-p5b9o2Every investing trend misfires as stock bears are crushedD...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The bias of social media
I got a comment on my recent post about monopolies that amused me no end, but didn ' t surprise me. As you may have noticed there ' s been a concerted campaign by right wingers to claim that social media is biased against conservatism. The commenter said it ' s a wonder the conservative message gets through at all.Of course the exact opposite is true: Facebook has had a long and complicated relationship with progressives after allowing former President Donald Trump to violate terms of service with posts and ads during the 2016 campaign season. Facebook also made money off of international companies that were driving w...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 22, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Haunted by the Impunity of Rich Business Leaders - Will One Criminal Conviction make a Difference? The Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Pleads Guilty
(Source: Health Care Renewal)
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 18, 2022 Category: Health Management Tags: Donald Trump HCA health care corruption impunity Purdue Pharma Source Type: blogs
A Dream Day at The Beach
BY MIKE MAGEE
Senator Lindsey Graham (R.,S.C.) is on summer recess. A consummate professional politician, and war hardened lawyer, Sen. Graham has made a career out of flipping on a dime. His moral calculus has been flexible enough to wiggle and weave, and switch sides if cornered.
In a dream, I caught a glimpse of him reading on one of his state’s beautiful beaches. He was juggling a weighty 1215 page classic – Leo Tolstoy’s “War & Peace” in one hand, and a yellow highlight marker in the other.
He looked a bit on edge, maybe because this week a federal judge refused to block a subpoena see...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Politics 2020 Election Donald Trump Lindsay Graham Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
FDA Finally Improves Access to Hearing Aids for SOME People
Jeffrey A. SingerToday the Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule which will give millions of Americans over ‐the‐counter access to hearing aids that heretofore required a prescription. The new rule, scheduled to take effect in mid ‐October, will benefit as many as30 million people who suffer from hearing loss.In 2017 Congress passed, and President Trump signed, theOver ‐the‐Counter Hearing Aid Act as a rider on the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017. The Act created a new category of OTC hearing aids as devices using air conduction to improve hearing among adults with mi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Alaska ’s Promising Voting Experiment
Walter OlsonAlaskans will go to the polls today to cast votes using an innovative electoral format that deserves notice and perhaps emulation in other states. It employs a two ‐stage process in which the first stage — an all‐party combined primary to winnow the field down to four candidates — is followed up by a general election employing ranked ‐choice voting (RCV).The second stage in the process, RCV, is already at least somewhat familiar to many readers given earlier discussionshere and elsewhere. (Here ’s a FAQ from the Alaska Elections Division on how it will work in the Last Fronti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
