I just started messing around with this writing platform, paragraph.xyz. As an economist, you might find it interesting. You create your own token, and followers can buy it, bidding it up. Essentially, readers reward good posts based on that one post, not a subscription pledge.
Healthcare! All politicians want to talk about is insurance and subsidies, to me these are just bandaids over the hemorrhaging wound called healthcare cost. Much like a trillion federal $$ caused tuition costs to explode, pouring more federal $$ into healthcare will just cause costs to continue to grow. We continue to stimulate demand while removing the constraint of affordability and using insurance to pay routine costs of living. If you were king what would be the first five steps you would take to address affordability?
Eliminate the fiction of Zero prices; put provider-set prices back into the process. The issue of "how will poor people pay" should be an entirely different problem to solve. The current mess is due to an amazing scheme of cross-subsidizing to conceal the fact that medical providers refuse to work for Zero income.
I enjoyed your short videos, but I wish you could also include captions for those of us with imperfect hearing. I use captions for everything with visual and audio.
Brillaint move packaging these into bite-sized rants. The housing video is probly my favorite because it cuts right through the political noise to show why subsidizing demand without fixing supply is just economic theater. I've been trying to explain that to local planners for years, and this format makes the logic pretty much undeniable.
One thing I've always been curious about, and I think you covered it a bit in a Hoover Institute panel interview, is why the relationship between monetary inflation and the consumer price index seems to be fluctuating strangely?
In New Zealand, where I live, I've noticed lots of revisions of how both these metrics are calculated... Is this a trend in other nations, and is it a good trend? Are the new ways of measuring these metrics more accurate, or less?
Those of us in NYC are bracing for the Zohran Mamdani's socialism experiment in 2026. It might be interesting to dedicate some subset of your grumpy talks on his policies as they roll out. "Cochrane Conquers Communism" or something like that.
Ｗｈａｔｓａｐｐ➕𝟭↡𝟱𝟭𝟴↡𝟱𝟭𝟮↡𝟭𝟱𝟴𝟬
I just started messing around with this writing platform, paragraph.xyz. As an economist, you might find it interesting. You create your own token, and followers can buy it, bidding it up. Essentially, readers reward good posts based on that one post, not a subscription pledge.
Healthcare! All politicians want to talk about is insurance and subsidies, to me these are just bandaids over the hemorrhaging wound called healthcare cost. Much like a trillion federal $$ caused tuition costs to explode, pouring more federal $$ into healthcare will just cause costs to continue to grow. We continue to stimulate demand while removing the constraint of affordability and using insurance to pay routine costs of living. If you were king what would be the first five steps you would take to address affordability?
Eliminate the fiction of Zero prices; put provider-set prices back into the process. The issue of "how will poor people pay" should be an entirely different problem to solve. The current mess is due to an amazing scheme of cross-subsidizing to conceal the fact that medical providers refuse to work for Zero income.
Ｗｈａｔｓａｐｐ➕𝟭↡𝟱𝟭𝟴↡𝟱𝟭𝟮↡𝟭𝟱𝟴𝟬
I enjoyed your short videos, but I wish you could also include captions for those of us with imperfect hearing. I use captions for everything with visual and audio.
Ｗｈａｔｓａｐｐ➕𝟭↡𝟱𝟭𝟴↡𝟱𝟭𝟮↡𝟭𝟱𝟴𝟬
Brillaint move packaging these into bite-sized rants. The housing video is probly my favorite because it cuts right through the political noise to show why subsidizing demand without fixing supply is just economic theater. I've been trying to explain that to local planners for years, and this format makes the logic pretty much undeniable.
I enjoy your articles and videos. Even at my age, 71, it is nice to be learning!
Ｗｈａｔｓａｐｐ➕𝟭↡𝟱𝟭𝟴↡𝟱𝟭𝟮↡𝟭𝟱𝟴𝟬
One thing I've always been curious about, and I think you covered it a bit in a Hoover Institute panel interview, is why the relationship between monetary inflation and the consumer price index seems to be fluctuating strangely?
In New Zealand, where I live, I've noticed lots of revisions of how both these metrics are calculated... Is this a trend in other nations, and is it a good trend? Are the new ways of measuring these metrics more accurate, or less?
Thanks for the explanation! Very helpful!
Ｗｈａｔｓａｐｐ➕𝟭↡𝟱𝟭𝟴↡𝟱𝟭𝟮↡𝟭𝟱𝟴𝟬
So nice to finally meet you here. Good Stuff John.
Thanks for the videos:). How about another one on the remarkable material progress of the past few centuries....people have no idea!
Ｗｈａｔｓａｐｐ➕𝟭↡𝟱𝟭𝟴↡𝟱𝟭𝟮↡𝟭𝟱𝟴𝟬
Those of us in NYC are bracing for the Zohran Mamdani's socialism experiment in 2026. It might be interesting to dedicate some subset of your grumpy talks on his policies as they roll out. "Cochrane Conquers Communism" or something like that.
Ｗｈａｔｓａｐｐ➕𝟭↡𝟱𝟭𝟴↡𝟱𝟭𝟮↡𝟭𝟱𝟴𝟬
How about a transcript for each one, and its own post. Still less than daily output, tho that would be kinda fun, too.
How about that MN welfare fraud?
Ｗｈａｔｓａｐｐ➕𝟭↡𝟱𝟭𝟴↡𝟱𝟭𝟮↡𝟭𝟱𝟴𝟬