I've always liked understanding the world through numbers, and markets are the beautiful impartial scorekeeper. When I was a teenager I used to compare the price of things to Wendy's cheeseburgers. "That's like 35 Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers!" I would say in ...
$4,537 can buy a lot of Skittles363,000+ (75 cents per pack and 60 skittles per package)]. It buys the average single deductible for an unsubsidized enrollee with healthcare coverage on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges. At 3.4x less, the $1,350 ave ...
Jeff Bezos is famous for being customer-centric, so much so that Amazon's annual letters proudly say, "We seek to be Earth’s most customer-centric company." Shipping, easy returns, streaming, and Kindle are proof. "Free" 2-day shipping for Prime membershi ...
12% and 33%. According to a 2015 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, only 12% of adults have a proficient state of healthcare literacy. That's why goals to eliminate waste in the US healthcare system, to promote consumerism, and to ...
Shopping for medical care, like reducing food waste, or the adage that half of advertising is wastedeven more than 50% is probably wasted due to high abandonment rates and manipulation. See Facebook example of not counting ad views of under 3 seconds., is ...
