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A ropewalk in Rio illustrates the liberatinrg power of a safey net.
Archive for the ‘Europe’ Category
October 12th, 2011
They just lend to each other.
September 28th, 2011
Not long after I arrived at Stanford, our medical center entered into a disastrous union with the UC-San Francisco’s health care system which ultimately poured tens and probably hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain. I could tell an enormously complicated story about why it didn’t work, bringing in issues of risk-pooling, local cultures [...]
August 26th, 2011
Is the health of European royalty expensive?
July 2nd, 2011
Category: Europe, Immigration
My initial post saying that EU governments are far less left-wing than many Americans believe, drew with a few exceptions sceptical comments here at RBC and at Washington Monthly. If you are in the camp that sees Europe as the backyard of the hard left, take a gander at Erik Voeten’s description of politics in [...]
June 18th, 2011
Category: Europe, Liberalism
I remember sitting in a hotel bar in Nevada watching NBC pollmeister Chuck Todd state confidently that Barack Obama would lose the state in the 2008 Presidential election because “The Republican Party always overperforms there”. A Mexican-American businessman with whom I had been chatting during commercials responded “The Nevada he knows isn’t Nevada any more”. [...]
May 29th, 2011
Category: Britain, Built Environment, Energy and Environment, Europe, Infrastructure, Technology and Society
A gallery of designer pylons and a British government pylon competition.
November 4th, 2010
Bumbling Greek terrorists and American electors
August 19th, 2010
Olives grown in hedges.
