Economist Arnold Kling points out the absurdity of the US government’s residential housing entities: Old consensus: we need Freddie and Fannie in order to make housing “affordable.” New consensus: we need them in order to “prevent further house price declines,” in other words, to make housing less affordable. A crazy world we Americans live in. [...]
Recently I’ve read two good recent articles on Health Savings Accounts and their usefulness reducing health care costs, increasing health care quality, and helping employees take home more cash. When I was on the management team at a former company, we agonized about employees’ health care. Not just how (or whether) to absorb the astonishing [...]
My friend Andres Glusman works at Meetup in some capacity (Insights? Marketing? Strategy? Products? any/all of the above?) concerned with web product design. Earlier this month (February 2010) he gave the following excellent presentation at a Meetup in NYC. I don’t know his co-author Anna DeYoung, but let’s give her some credit, too. Really good [...]
Sometimes the plea for better grammar isn’t just pedantry, but rather a desire for clearer, more efficient communication. (At least that’s how I’ll justify this post to you, my three readers.) It seems obvious to me that “written” (committed to paper) and “oral” (spoken) are just two more distinct forms of “verbal” (using words). Yet [...]
Regular readers of my blog (both of you!) come here for comments on Scotch whisky, maybe also the occasional photo album of funny street signs. And my friends (yes, both of you!) know that I’m generally apolitical, at least in the sense of organized party affiliation. Certainly I have little to add to the vast [...]
