“The best Wall Street minds and their best risk-management tools failed to see the crash coming,” wrote Joe Nocera in a 2009 NYT article aptly titled “Risk Mismanagement”. The Great Recession imparted an unwelcome lesson in humility to risk management
No-Platforming and John Stuart Mill: A Return to Free Speech
John Stuart Mill argued, among other things, that it is crucial to disavow censorship because the suppression of free speech leads to the truncation of thought. Still, many years after 1859, “On Liberty” offers lessons on free speech worth relearning.
It’s time for doctors to curtail their prescriptions of addictive pain meds
Black life expectancy figures are converging with those of whites—but that’s not a good thing. Middle-aged whites are getting sicker, dying quicker, and reporting worse mental health. That is what Dr. Anne Case and Dr. Angus Deaton’s groundbreaking 2015 paper
What gets in the way of having a place to stay in California?
Some factors contributing to the decline in homeownership rates and surge in home and rent prices In California’s Silicon Valley, software engineers and senior-level executives feel they are scraping by on six figure salaries: ‘I didn’t become a software engineer
Motor Vehicle Related Expenditures and Disposable Income
Aggregate Engel Curve: Motor Vehicles-Related Expenditure and Disposable Income (1997 – 2015) Introduction This paper estimates how overall consumption of motor vehicles and related parts varies with disposable income across the fifty states. I began by collecting seven macroeconomic variables,