In March the gap between London and New York gold prices jumped to $60 per ounce, 40 times the typical spread of $1.50 per ounce. In times of fear, investors prefer to have their gold in New York. These extreme arbitragearbitrage: to simultaneously buy lo ...
Healthcare Data Collaboration
Times of stress and crises heighten the senses, clear travel calendars, and renew our focus. For those on the business side of healthcare working on benefits purchasing, data, or analytics, this is a great moment to collaborate, to share and seek out data ...
Amazon’s Health Benefits
Last year I posted a question on Quora asking what healthcare benefits and cost sharing were like at Google. A few answers of the "it's private" or "No, I can't say" variety soon surfaced. They have sense been oddly scrubbed from the site. Why the secrec ...
Open Enrollment Tips
It's the time of year for leaves, baseball, and 30-page open enrollment guides*. If you're a prospective employee, "we offer benefits" doesn't have the precision on the scale of value as does a first class flights to Europe. "We offer a free first class ...
Healthcare Alpha
Discerning luck from skill can be hard. Baseball has 162 games per season. Boring for some but more than enough games for randomness to average out. How telling is one game? How telling is one case study? It could be random or just cherry picked. It's th ...