Month: December 2011

Explaining the doc fix

The Finance Buff (TFB), my former blog host, asked me some questions about the doc fix. I answered them. If this is something you want

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Reinterpreting Star Wars

I was not yet 5 years old when I saw Star Wars for the first time in the theater. I distinctly remember believing that they

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Navigating love and autism

Do yourself a favor, and go read Amy Harmon’s piece in today’s NYT, Navigating love and autism. Besides being an important story, it’s a perfect

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A tale of two births

It’s a holiday week at TIE, but I’m manning the shop, and thought I’d post an essay I wrote some time ago, but never published.

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Pilot interventions

Happy Holidays to all. Megan McArdle has an interesting post, somewhat meladramatically titled “Why pilot projects fail.”  Many of her points are well-taken. Indeed these

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Holiday myths

It’s a really slow day, so I thought I’d give you something festive to read. A couple years ago, I co-authored a paper in the

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We’re #1? – ctd.

Remember that “study” from the Legatum Institute that showed we were the best in the world in terms of health? I’d moved on, but Kenneth

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TIE for the holidays

As long as things go according to plans, Congress should pass the payroll tax extension today. This has the added benefit of enacting a billionth

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