6 October 2023
This editorial is bonkers. It criticizes Kaiser for controlling medical costs … and tries to use the Kaiser experience as just another reason why ‘single-payer’ does not work.
Single-payer healthcare only works until the reality of rationing bites.
Have they tried to get a referral from United Healthcare lately? Traditional healthcare insurance rations to preserve profits. Business rations resources to make their numbers. Which principle is WSJ applying?
If you thought local news was dead, this opinion piece argues otherwise. Whether this evidence indicates a trend is debatable. However, local news is important for the future of our republic.
I had just finished reading a Bloomberg Headline Story noting that their economists were predicting 160,000 new Jobs in September – a slow down in jobs production. Just as I finished, the numbers were released – 336,000 new jobs.
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Scientific American article discusses the energy requirements for AI via an interview of Alex de Cries, a data scientist and Ph.D. candidate studying the energy costs of emerging technologies. He suggests that sustainability of AI should be included as a
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Intel is not making delivery commitments for new supercomputer at Argonne. Energy Department has 10 companies engaged in a research center focused on quantum computing. Jesus pointed out that power corrupts – remember the temptations? OpEd written by former Liberty student
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Article in NYT concerning the evolution at Fannie Mae. The pressure to take more risky loans came during the heyday of the Republican Congress. But it wasn’t just Congress, as Gov. Palin said during the debate on Oct 2. Wall
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The big 5 investement bankers asked for a rule change at the SEC — that this article said created a situation where the information that might have predicted the current crisis became invisible. The man representing Goldman Sachs at the
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An opinion piece hypthosizes how an assumption on the isolation of risks in the Wall Street risk models was wrong…
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This article in the New York Times recounts Bernanke’s theory of information capital (and the deficit thereof) leading to the great depression. The failure to provide adequate information to the market — is that a market failure? If so, does
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Here are two articles and one editorial with Goldman Sachs as a common element. Wall Street, RIP Blind Eye to a web of Risk Georgians were first casualties of market crisis Wonder how many other common elements may be found?
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A blog just waits patiently til the muse appears.
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Research Question Ravtosh Bal Jim Flowers Fang Xiao Rough Draft In the past 5 years, two separate efforts to improve the performance of Georgia students in STEM subjects have been executed by the Georgia Department of Education and the University
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Seems Georgia is in line for federal healthcare dollars. $1.4 million will go to the Georgia Association of Primary Health Care to help regional health centers convert to systems facilitating electronic medical records (EMR). If you want to learn more
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A prayer from the Episcopal prayer book: Lord Jesus, for our sake you were condemned as a criminal: Visit our jails and prisons with your pity and judgment. Remember all prisoners, and bring the guilty to repentance and amendment of
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Doing some reading this morning, Pascal was a pretty smart fellow: Men never do evil so completely or cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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