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Riddle Me This: How Can Distance to Old Providers Go Down By Switching Insurance Plans?

I’m reading this Working Paper by Jon Gruber and Robin McKnight, and am baffled by one of their findings. First, the context: There is one important outcome that is the current focus of much debate over limited network plans, however: patient access to providers as proxied by distance traveled. A major concern raised about limited […]

Four Mises CA Posts

Because my blog was in migration, I held up on posting these. But catching up now: ==> In this post I discuss Barkley Rosser’s attempt to (partially) explain the 1921 recovery on the fiscal stimulus pushed through by Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover. ==> Randians versus Rothbardians. I assume that’s all the click-bait you need. ==> […]

Blog Migration

Hey everyone, I had to move my blog host, which is why things were odd for the last couple of weeks. At this point we think everything is transferred over. Let me know if you notice any quirks, because I’m getting ready to bid adieu to the other host.

Second-Guessing God

I’ve made this point in various ways before: We obviously do not know exactly why God allows certain evil acts to occur, but the answer is certainly NOT going to be, “Oh, you care more about sick children than God does,” or, “God wasn’t paying close enough attention when the Holocaust happened.” Let me try […]

Tom Woods Confesses to His Listeners

There are a lot of things you will learn in this episode of the Tom Woods Show: (1) He is a good dad. (2) He is a workaholic. (3) “Contra Krugman” will launch in April. Let’s hope Krugman is still a Keynesian!

U.S. Monetary History Bask

Hey kids, sorry to ask this, but Scott Sumner is getting uppity and I really need the monthly M2 figures for the U.S. in the period of 1919 – 1922. I don’t need the figures for every single month in that span, but it would be great to know the peaks and troughs. Does anybody […]

Murphy Plugs Understanding Bitcoin and Tom Woods’ Real Dissent

Here’s the link to the Bitcoin website, and here’s the link to Tom’s new book that helps me buy Christmas presents.

Potpourri

==> I am late in announcing this blogger Scott Alexander, but he is fantastic. (A bunch of econ bloggers were praising him about a month ago.) He is very sharp but beyond that he illustrates his points with numerous links to show he’s not attacking a strawman (or woman). For example, here he talks about […]