Submitted by unsettling economics

Here is a brief extract from a valuable book that described how outsourcing was losing the sort of crucial healthcare information that can come the supposedly “unskilled workers.”
Appelbaum, Eileen, Peter Berg, Ann Frost, and Gil Preuss. 2003. “The Effects of Work Restructuring on Low- Wage, Low-Skilled Workers in U.S. Hospitals.” In Eileen […]

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Submitted by unsettling economics

More than three decades ago, I read a book by an English doctor, who described his positive experiences during the cultural Revolution.  Just today, I got around to the New York Times science section from last week in which nursing homes are starting to adopt slightly similar practices in which they distribute […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
According to the EWG Farm Subsidy Database, fewer than 5% of congressional districts (19 out of 435 distrcits, or 4.35%) accounted for almost half (49.7%) of crop subsidy program spending in the U.S. between 2003 and 2005.
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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

From today’s Washington Post:
The human race is crossing a line. There is now one cellphone for every two humans on Earth.
From essentially zero, we’ve passed a watershed of more than 3.3 billion active cellphones on a planet of some 6.6 billion humans in about 26 years. This is the fastest global diffusion […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
According to the NY Times:

1. The House and Senate bills, each costing about $280 billion over five years, are way over budget and include an array of gimmicky tax increases to make up the shortfall.

2. Even worse, the bills perpetuate an unfair, wasteful program of price supports and direct payments.

3. Half […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Thanks to an anonymous CD reader for this comment:

“As remote controlled robots are utilized more and more to do operations it is conceivable that one day a surgeon in Bangalore, India will perform operations on patients located in a Walmart surgical clinic in Mobile, Alabama. The technology has been here for a […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Including:

Adjusting rabbit ears on top of a TV

Balancing the tonearm on a turntable

Formatting a floppy

Knowing What Part Of Town Someone Lives In By Their Phone Exchange

Multiplication using a Sliderule

Popping corn in a pot with oil

Remembering telephone numbers

Setting the correct time on a VCR

Using a pay telephone

See […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
1. CHICAGO: India Inc., which is facing the heat from U.S. Presidential candidates who blamed ’shipping jobs’ to China and India for rising U.S. unemployment, has launched a counter-offensive here telling Americans that the industry is creating new work opportunities for them and “gifting” thousands of jobs to Americans and not “stealing” […]

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Submitted by EconWeekly
Imagine if you didn’t have to file a tax return. Imagine if, come T-day, the only thing you needed to do to comply with your tax obligations was to sign a form and mail it. And imagine if this could be done without changing a comma of the tax code. This is not […]

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Submitted by Econbrowser
By Menzie Chinn
Or, who will be the Keating 5 of the 2000’s? Perspectives from those of us who remember the East Asian crises of the 1990’s.
From the NYT:

News Analysis
A ‘Moral Hazard’ for a Housing Bailout: Sorting the Victims From Those Who Volunteered
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: February 23, 2008
WASHINGTON — Over the last two […]

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Submitted by Businomics Blog
“Markets and Medicare” is a great article in today’s Wall Street Journal by my good friend John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis.  The article has value beyond the Medicare debate, but let’s first key in on those issues.  Dr. Goodman explains how medical costs can be lowered and […]

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Submitted by A Dash of Insight
A musical look at last year from L McDuff.  Hat tip to “BK” for sending.

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