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
Odds and Ends
This article doesn ' t mention that at that time it also used a different ammunition than the original design which caused a lot of the problems.) These weapons are designed for one purpose only, and that is to kill Homo sapiens. The combination of very high muzzle velocity and a light, .223 caliber bullet does the job, because perhaps counterintuitively, the lighter bullet tumbles when it hits flesh and blows big holes in people, whereas heavier bullets go right through with much less damage. They actually account for a small share of gun violence in the U.S., but I would say they are culturally obnoxious. They ' re ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 3, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Russian Public Opinion on the Ukraine War: Perspectives from the American Experience
John MuellerSince World War II, the United States has conducted extended wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Whether the Russian effort in Ukraine will be similarly extended has yet to be seen. However, should that come about, evidence about public opinion from America ’s wars suggests lessons—and non-lessons—for assessing Russian opinion on the war in Ukraine.The comparison suggests that, after a rally-round-the flag effect at the outset of the war, a decline of support is to be expected regardless of the effects of media coverage, antiwar demonstrations, censorship and propaganda efforts, or military hap...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
Correcting the Record on the Trans ‐Pacific Partnership
Clark PackardCiting a supposed groundswell of support for rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), former U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Lighthizer recentlyargued that it would be a mistake for the United States to reenter the trade pact. The promising agreement with 11 other Pacific Rim countries was negotiated by the Obama Administration as the economic centerpiece of its “pivot to Asia” but then was unfortunatelyjettisoned by the Trump Administration as one of its first official acts in January 2017. The remaining TPP members moved forward with the agreement and renamed it the Comprehensive and Pr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
Moral Philosophy, and some pragmatism
The objective was to install a regime more congenial to North American and European interests, which in the view of the perpetrators included being friendly to Israel. What they got was social collapse and a horrific civil war, followed by a regime more friendly to Iran. There are a couple of points that might make a minor moral distinction between this war crime and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. One is that the majority of the Iraq population did want an end to the Saddam Hussein regime, although they invaders didn ' t really understand anything about Iraq and in particular that there wasn ' t any common national ident...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 28, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Strange Interlude
This is probably off topic for the blog but I can do whatever I want. Anyway I don ' t know why I suddenly thought of this but it is a good reminder of how weird people are and maybe somebody has a comment.My first year in college -- what we called my freshman year back in the day -- during orientation I found myself standing next to a guy at one of the tedious events they subjected us to. We were leaning against the railings around the track in the field house. So I tried to start a conversation with him. He seemed very aloof and unfriendly and didn ' t seem to want to strike up an acquaintance so that was that. He also s...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 24, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Let the Sun Set on Solar Tariffs
ConclusionThe best decision by President Biden would be to refuse to extend these solar tariffs —one ofmany examples of how freeing trade can help counter climate change. Yet what may well prevent Biden from making the best decision are the politics involved and, especially, the prospect of being accused of favoring China and abandoning U.S. labor unions. But surely Joe Biden should have realized by now that, in any trade decision he makes that relates to China and regardless of what he actually does, the president will be accused by his political opponents of kowtowing to the Chinese government. And if his goal is to ex...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 19, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: James Bacchus, Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
War is really not all it ’s cracked up to be
An excerpt from All Bleeding Stops. 42nd Surgical Hospital Phu Bai Republic of Vietnam December 1967 Private Ira Stein has so many wounds, has lost so much blood, that the corpsmen nearly bring him straight to Graves. Steve Benson can ’t get a pressure. He shakes his head. “Matthew, there’s no point taking this kid toRead more …War is really not all it’s cracked up to be originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michael-j-collins" rel="tag" > Michael J. Collins, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Surgery Source Type: blogs
What I learned about medicine in the House of Pain
Recently, I finished reading a book about Dr. D.S. “Doc” Ping titled The Legend of Doc Ping. Doc, a former United States Marine and Vietnam veteran, mentored me for a near-decade from my adolescence through early adulthood. As I was reading this book, I could not help but reflect on my time training with him,Read more …What I learned about medicine in the House of Pain originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/casey-paul-schukow" rel="tag" > Casey Paul Schukow < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Medical school Source Type: blogs
A Scary Time for Teens? Compared to When?
David BoazIt ' s a scary time to be a teenager,blares the Washington Post. " 51 percent of teens said they felt this is a bad time to be growing up . . . and 62 percent of parents said the same. " Why?There are plenty of reasons both generations might feel this is a particularly difficult time to be a kid in high school: the prevalence of gun violence, the persistence of systemic racism, the specter of police brutality, the pressures of social media, the volatility of contemporary politics and, of course, the still enduring stress of thecoronavirus pandemic.Then there is the existential threat of climate change, which loom...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Exposure in surgery is everything
An excerpt from All Bleeding Stops. 42nd Surgical Hospital Phu Bai Republic of Vietnam August 1967 They hear them before they see them, the deep, thudding whump of the rotors pounding in their brains, booming in their chests. The choppers come at them, rising over the wall of trees, leaking oil, dripping blood, enlarging, becomingRead more …Exposure in surgery is everything originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 4, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michael-j-collins" rel="tag" > Michael J. Collins, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Orthopedics Source Type: blogs
When Conservatives Forget the History of the Fairness Doctrine
Paul MatzkoNate Hochman, a fellow at the Claremont Institute, is trying toconvince conservatives that the Fairness Doctrine was fair. It is a bold thesis given longstanding conservative antipathy towards government regulation of media. But Hochman blames that antipathy on kneejerk libertarians, who invoke " shallow Reagan-era slogans about small government and individual liberty. " Perhaps, but I can tell you with certainty that the author is falling prey to a shallow understanding of the history of broadcast regulation.It would not be entirely fair to criticize a recent college graduate like Mr. Hochman for not knowing wh...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 2, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Paul Matzko Source Type: blogs
Yes, Taliban Is Like Vietcong — and IS Is Like Khmer Rouge
Mustafa AkyolThe American withdrawal from Kabul in Aug 2021 made many people recall the scenes of the American withdrawal from Saigon in April 1975. That is indeed a helpful analogy, because the Taliban of today has similarities to the Vietcong of the past. Both are popular militia forces mobilized against American forces of occupation, only to establish authoritarian regimes after the latter ’s departure. (The big difference, of course, is that while the authoritarian ideology of the Vietcong wascommunism, that of the Taliban isIslamism— a politicized and oppressive interpretation of Islam disfavored by the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 30, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Mustafa Akyol Source Type: blogs
The fifth column brings a fifth wave
U.S. COVID deaths have surpassed U.S. war deaths from World War II, Vietnam, and Korea. The unvaccinated are a fifth column that has ushered in a wave of nasty COVID variant infections in the United States, with their attendant deaths, costs, and disruptions to society. We need to stop debating the tone in which weRead more …The fifth column brings a fifth wave originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/steven-teitelbaum-and-nina-shapiro" rel="tag" > Steven Teitelbaum, MD and Nina Shapiro, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
The fifth column brings a fifth wave
U.S. COVID deaths have surpassed U.S. war deaths from World War II, Vietnam, and Korea. The unvaccinated are a fifth column that has ushered in a wave of nasty COVID variant infections in the United States, with their attendant deaths, costs, and disruptions to society. We need to stop debating the tone in which weRead more …The fifth column brings a fifth wave originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/steven-teitelbaum-and-nina-shapiro" rel="tag" > Steven Teitelbaum, MD and Nina Shapiro, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
