Markets price goods and services. They also set prices for the value of businesses and offer weighted opinions on political outcomes--they aggregate our revealed preferences. Financial valuation uses multiple approaches to estimate the value of a compan ...
Businesses love metrics. One form or novel way (a 5 on the hack prowess scale) is to find the perfect metric that makes the future a little more predictable. The eager student tells the elderly person, "Teach me to be wealthy, only quicker" to paraphrase ...
$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 ...
Today the cost of healthcare landed on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, just below a story on bond yields, and next to the dancing UK Prime Minister, Teresa May. The angle of the story is how the cost of family healthcare premiums in the United ...
Price opacity is one of the grievances people have with healthcare in the US. Hip replacement price variation is an oft-cited procedure, yet another example where hoarding information and obfuscation is the norm. In one city, prices can vary by a factor o ...
