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GDP Revisions

{ Posted on Jan 16 2012 by Jazzbumpa }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, GDP, jazzbumpa, Research
This is just a short post to illustrate the magnitude of GDP revisions. I downloaded quarterly GDP data from BEA in June 2011. I went back to BEA this morning to update the file. Forgetting about GDP revisions, ...Read More »

Presimetrics Review

{ Posted on Oct 22 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Book Reviews, Economics, Presimetrics, Research, Uncategorized
Noted for the record: author Piaw Na reviews Mike Kimel's Presimetrics at Piaw's Blog:This is a great book to read if you've got a statistical bent and are willing to follow the data rather than your pre-conceived notions....Many people like ...Read More »

Prostate Cancer Advance, and Europeans Free Riding on American Research

{ Posted on Sep 26 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, foreign country health, health care, Research, socialized medicine, Uncategorized
by Mike KimelThere's a story going around in the news about a new prostate cancer drug. Here's press release:A life-extending new drug to treat patients with advanced prostate cancer, developed by The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and ...Read More »

McKinsey Thought-Experiment: What If They Are Correct?

{ Posted on Jun 17 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : administrative costs, All, Angry Bear, Health care costs, health care reform, politics, Research, Uncategorized
I'm not going to do this with graphics (at least for now), but the finger exercise seems intuitive.Assume—against all evidence—that the "once we educated them, 30% said they would stop offering health insurance to their lowest-paid employees" study is accurate.How ...Read More »

Health Care FYI

{ Posted on Feb 17 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, health care, innovation, Research, Uncategorized
The quality of the posts at Disruptive Women in Health Care(r) varies widely, but their special issues bring out the best and leave most of the chaff behind.Their latest eBook is Innovation Nation: Recognizing the Benefits of Innovation in Health ...Read More »

Like gum at the bottom of my shoe…

{ Posted on Feb 14 2011 by Jeffrey Dean }
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Categories : All, AMGN, General Commentary, GNBT. AMGEN, hot penny stocks, investorsoup, penny stock, penny stock blog, Research, small cap blog, small cap stock blog, small cap stocks, stock research, Uncategorized
….I just can’t get rid of GNBT.  Generex Biotechnolology Corp. (GNBT.OB) has been on my radar for several years and I have recommended it (or warned traders away) several times.  I got another email from a reader asking me to ...Read More »

Following the Taylor Rule would have led to President Kerry

{ Posted on Jan 04 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Cursive-Z recession, jobless recovery, monetary policy, Research, solvency crisis, unemployment
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand released a paper by Nicolas Groshenny last month—I'm behind on planning for Chanukkah; that I got to a paper from New Zealand about U.S. monetary policy this soon is, er, probably one of the ...Read More »

Everything Old is New Again, Part 1934-1937

{ Posted on Oct 23 2010 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, economic history, Economics, Great Recession, history, Research
I have (vainly, I suspect, in both senses of the phrase), tried to start a meme on Twitter, #ifTimGeithnerrantheEmergencyRoom. “The defibrillator would only charge to 30 to prevent scarring; anything more and you’re on your own” probably isn’t winning friends ...Read More »

Everything Old is New Again, Part 1934-1937

{ Posted on Oct 23 2010 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Economics, Great Depression, Great Recession, Research
I have (vainly, I suspect, in both senses of the phrase), tried to start a meme on Twitter, #ifTimGeithnerrantheEmergencyRoom. “The defibrillator would only charge to 30 to prevent scarring; anything more and you’re on your own” probably isn’t winning friends ...Read More »

Thinking about Research

{ Posted on Oct 21 2010 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, Economics, EMH, health care, Research
Chris Blattman highlights the latest version of Janet Currie and Reed Walker’s research on a positive externality of the shift to E-Z Pass (PDF link). From the Abstract: We find that reductions in traffic congestion generated ...Read More »
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