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February 2014

February 10, 2014

The future of the German apprenticeship system?

Via marginalrevolution.com, an article in the Financial Times on the future of the German apprenticeship...

February 08, 2014

Piecing together the minimum wage, Obamacare, and illiegal immigration

Three disparate topics: the minimum wage, Obamacare, and illegal immigration. But they're fundamentally all connected...

February 08, 2014

On ObamaCare and “takers”

So the whole fallout from the CBO report (that is, the CBO report predicting people...

February 06, 2014

Anyone have experience using a pizza peel?

I looked at Amazon yesterday and the reviews were mixed: is a wooden or aluminum...

February 06, 2014

For avoidance of doubt, this is what I think about the CBO report

So I wrote about the CBO report last night, and, in the end, was pretty...

February 06, 2014

On Marriage and the Priesthood

Part of the purpose of this blog is to be able to comment on articles

February 05, 2014

Reading the CBO Report

So I've been waiting all day to have the kids tucked in (OK, just the...

February 04, 2014

“Just another lifestyle choice”

I suppose I'm showing my age if I quote Dan Quayle (hey, look it up...

February 04, 2014

Go Red for Women

This is again a sort of placeholder for something I want to write about later:...

February 03, 2014

On Immigration-bill Terminology

Just a few thoughts for Monday morning: We need to adjust the terminology around immigration....

February 02, 2014

More on immigration – and globalization

Three more thoughts on immigration, all connected to the issues of labor force. (I haven't...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

More thinking on immigration

New laptop + Windows 8 = I have very little understanding of how to use...

January 31, 2014

So what *should* the Republicans do on immigration?

Actually, this post is more of a placeholder than anything, a way to push myself...

January 30, 2014

The “Immigration Principles”

I just don't know what to make of this.The Republicans have released their "immigration principles"...

January 29, 2014

The “myRA”?

It's been said multiple times that Obama is playing "small ball," preferring smaller executive orders...

January 29, 2014

An Immigation Manifesto

I know I should be writing on the SOTU, or on the Coburn healthcare proposal,...

January 28, 2014

$50 per stitch

That's how much the ER bill was that arrived in the mail yesterday, for the...

January 28, 2014

Dissecting The Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act

Is it worth the wait? Is this promised "ObamaCare replacement" any good? Let's call this...

January 27, 2014

From the library: The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois

A change of pace from my usual reading. . . A couple years ago, I...

January 27, 2014

Parking a link: Whither meritocracy?

As I may have mentioned (or maybe not) I used to think I would get...

January 26, 2014

Private Property, “TINA” and “You didn’t build that”

Yet another classic* Jane the Actuary rambling "thinking through an idea" type of post. (*...

January 25, 2014

“Do what you love” (continued)

After having previously written about the Slate article on this notion, and, last night, on...

January 25, 2014

The jobs problem (some rambling Friday-night thoughts)

So, as many of you know, I consistently follow relatively few blogs, but one of...

January 23, 2014

Jane the . . . Chemist?

King of the Nerds, eh? That's what's on TV as I write this, and I'm...

January 23, 2014

What’s the fate of Sears?

I remember when Montgomery Wards died. My parents never shopped there -- it was too...

January 22, 2014

Teachers’ Unions: my first encounter

So my oldest son is starting high school in the fall, and this will be...

January 22, 2014

What about all the 26 year olds?

The fact that ObamaCare allows 26 year olds to stay on their parents' health insurance...

January 21, 2014

Some family history stories

I was going to write up a bit of an explanation of how the German...

January 21, 2014

Parking a link: an immigration sell-out

Mickey Kaus reports on/speculates on potential Republican immigration legislation. Ugh. Why would Republicans in the...

January 21, 2014

Is pot-smoking merely a “bad habit”?

Look, I know that there are significant differences of opinion among reasonable people of good...

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