POLICY
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Which would make America safer? a) continuing to spend ~$280B per year on police, prosecution, and prisons b) using that money to build a national community health & safety worke...
BREAKING: NYC schools are projecting enrollment losses of 30,000 students for this Fall. Mayor Adams: “We have a massive hemorrhaging of students — massive hemorrhaging." Over 1...
My new essay, published at the @CSPICenterOrg Substack, introduces the issue of airspace markets. Airspace, I argue, resembles spectrum in the 1980s: an appreciating asset that can...
Just ban private jets. #ClimateCrisis https://t.co/XNLjj6UGyd
1/9 China has been shifting from a centrally planned economy to a market-driven one, explains Caixin, and as part of this shift, the PBOC is liberalizing interest-rate policy "to a...
Deep learning for large quasi-free market economies. The value of state owned energy firms is far greater than what meets the eye. India, for example, should streamline and build o...
Policy, Procedure, Process & Protocol.
The problem is not with the policy. The problem is with Government's casual approach to lawmaking. There was no whisper of this scheme and those who have been preparing and waiting...
On Aug 7, 2020, Air India Express 1344 from Dubai overran Kozhikode’s tabletop runway, into the ravine, killing 21 of 190 on board. The Vande Bharat flight was bringing back Indian...
Increasing older worker's labor supply has been an topic for @nberpubs since the mid-1980s. And they've evidently been very successful! I recently gave a talk there that asked the...
Ec10 competition policy class Part 1: Govt Policy Towards Monopolies. Previously we learned deadweight loss (monopolies restrict quantity, preventing beneficial exchanges). Also d...
🧀THIS IS NOT NORMAL🧀 The red lines in these @NHSuk charts for neonatal death risk are THREE sigma (with a "normal" stillbirth rate). That is, about 1 in 1000 probability events....
After the greedflation kerfuffle, I wanted to step back and reflect on the role of polemics and open mindedness in approaching policy debates. I'll do it by talking about how to t...
Uday Kotak's learnings from IL&FS: ( each lesson is a gem) A. Extremely important policymakers and govt step in fast during a crisis B. IL&FS had a 6-layered structure which faile...
Glad to see our plan for governors to unilaterally secure the border is gaining momentum in AZ. If successful in just the red states, this plan would secure the vast majority of th...
@balajis What I don't get, Balaji, is how we can expect a small group of people to create policy for millions—regardless of the technology behind it. Policy is extremely difficult...
I've been behind enemy lines, reading everything published by the Bank of International Settlements in 2021. Here are 10 pieces that I found the most alarming and most relevant to...
WHY FRANCE SO SPICY? A decade of anti-nuclear policy in one of the most anti-nuclear countries in Europe is coming home to roost. France has terrible nuclear fleet availability,...
We should give a $10,000 investment account to every newborn baby. It's a crazy idea, but the logic and math is pretty compelling... Here's how I see it working: https://t.co/vKa...
How vaccine passports happened so quickly? The planning started some time ago. A 2018 article from a group that partners with the UN, Microsoft, Rockefeller, called ID2020 wrote va...
If you are uninsured and happen to need a few stitches, do NOT go to my alma mater. https://t.co/Nr3eQtVkw7
President @MBuhari has approved the establishment of a National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) to be domiciled in the Office of the National Secur...
THREAD 🔴HEC Advises Universities to Conduct Exams based on their Capacity and Need for Fair Assessment 🔴 The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has taken note of the concerns rai...
