Dollarization and the Lender of Last Resort
Javier Milei, the surprising frontrunner in Argentina’s presidential primaries, has a bold plan for reducing inflation: getting rid of the peso altogether. His proposal, which involves adopting the US dollar as the official currency of Argentina, is gaining traction. The allure of Milei’s dollarization proposal rests on its simplicity: Since Argentina struggles to produce monetary […]
Anupam Bapu Jena on Random Acts of Medicine
0:37 Intro. [Recording date: August 22, 2023.] Russ Roberts: Today is August 22nd, 2023, and my guest is physician and economist, Anupam Bapu Jena. He is the Joseph P. Newhouse professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has an M.D. and […]
Six Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Six, you say. I had a terrible struggle over the headline, because I wanted to make a witty allusion, but the one quotation that came to mind was Shakespeare’s lovely “sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care” (close reading) but eesh, those words are spoken by Macbeth, and […]
