Kellogg tells you their cereal is natural and has whole grains. There are no broccoli lobbyists or marketers (other than moms). Some good things do need reminders. One trigger for some of my favorite healthcare and financial housekeeping tips starts with ...
Valuing a Piece of Americana
Baseball cards are part of Americana. The slotted binders, stats, and bike rides to shops evoke nostalgia too. The investment merit of cards fit is another question. An index of the rarest of cards may have outperformed the S&P 500 by 2.3x over the l ...
Read The Footnotes
70% of people don't read beyond the headlines. I don't know if this is true or where I saw it but it feels right. Footnote reading has got to be a rare sport. Perhaps one in a hundred do that. Some deep understanding requires footnote experience. We're o ...
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 ...
A Tale of $2,000
Whether Einstein said it or not, compound interest is amazing: “...the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it, he who doesn't, pays it.” Negative compounding is powerful too, and we pay it in the form of healthcare inflation.Over the l ...