Public Health from the People

There are many ways to privately improve public health. Such responses make use of local knowledge, entrepreneurship, and civil society and pursue standard goals of public health like controlling the spread of infectious diseases. Moreover, private responses improve overall welfare by lowering the total costs of a disease and limiting externalities. If private responses can […]

Debt and Unfunded Liabilities | AIER

Educators picket the Colorado legislature on behalf of the Public Employees’ Retirement Association. Downtown Denver, April 2018. When conversations come up regarding government debt, the focus is usually on the national debt. The $34 Trillion national debt (not to mention the $80 trillion in unfunded obligations from Social Security and Medicare) is crucial to understand, […]

The Invasion Of Illegal Aliens – It’s Insane

Sources are saying that the majority of people flooding in through the Southern Border are now from Africa and the Middle East, with a lot of Chinese thrown in for good measure. They denied two of my employees from Europe who have UK and German passports and have been coming to the USA before to […]

My Weekly Reading and Viewing for February 4, 2024

  Two reading highlights and one viewing highlight. The 2 Reasons California’s YIMBY Reforms Are Failing by Christian Britschgi, Reason, January 30, 2024. Excerpt: So, what’s going on? Why haven’t other YIMBY housing laws kicked off a boom in new duplexes and transit-adjacent apartments as they have with ADUs? I’d boil it down to two […]