Well while I’m on the topic of the future of Healthcare here’s another one for you. The CEO of the CMA, Joe Dunn, came and spoke at the UCD School of Medicine several weeks ago and he gave a great speech. And now, through the miracle of technology, that speech is available to all of you! His speech was directed towards medical students but it really has relevance to anyone who wants to get something done in politics. Its long but he’s a very engaging and entertaining speaker and the speech really gets better as it goes along so if you have the time its definitely worth watching it through. You would be hard-pressed to find a better primer on how things get done in government.
Well its long been my position that the largest bias of the media is their bias towards the exciting, tantalizing, scandalous, lurid, and enraging. Nowhere is this more evident than in the way that the media treats the actions of murderers who commit mass shootings. I was reading an interesting article in MindHacks (an excellent psychology/neuroscience blog) the other day about this subject and with the immigration center shooting that happened in New York today, I thought this was an appropriate time to post something about it.
A very interesting video clip on this subject and a brief commentary can be found after the jump (which means after you click “continue reading” for my readers who are new to the blog culture) Continue reading
Well I’ve had several questions lately about a statement I made in my post CA Obstructionism and Political Games in which I was pretty dismissive of tax cuts in the stimulus bill. All the questions came via email of course (this is what the commenting system is for guys! You can comment anonymously if you want!). Anyway, while I’m planning on writing a much larger treatise on tax policy at some later date, I thought I’d address why I think tax cuts provide for relatively little stimulus. I’m going to try to keep it as non-technical and conversational as possible. And I should note before I begin that the principles I’ll present in this post are not universally agreed upon in the field of economics, but they are reflective of the economic philosophies that seem most reasonable to me given my educational experiences, and the views that are most widely held among economists today. So with that, lets just jump right in, this is the trouble with tax cuts as far as I can tell… Continue reading
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