We’re gaining a point of subjective health every 333 years. But on second thought, that’s not so bad. Another way to express the same fact is to say that we are aging by only 9.5 months every year.
Nov 29 2005
The FCC thinks that cable TV's bundling policies are bad, according to this report. Chairman Kevin Martin, reversing a course set by predecessor Michael Powell, told lawmakers on Tuesday that cable subscribers could benefit if given the option to pick individual channels instead of being forced to sign up for predesig...
Nov 29 2005
Philip Keefer writes, political competitors who are unable to make credible promises to most voters will, upon taking office, underprovide public goods, overspend on transfers to narrow groups, and engage in significant rent-seeking. That is, the behavior of such politicians can be characterized as highly clientelist....
Nov 29 2005
We're gaining a point of subjective health every 333 years. But on second thought, that's not so bad. Another way to express the same fact is to say that we are aging by only 9.5 months every year.
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Nov 29 2005 at 1:17pm
A point of subjective health is a lot — the difference between how healthy an 18 year old feels and how healthy an 89 year old feels. Is the US national debt rising glacially because it takes 2500 years at the current pace to rack up a quadrillion dollars of debt?
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