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Yes, gay couples plan for the future. In fact, they’re really good at it.
Here’s an argument I didn’t expect to be making today: Yes, gay people care about the future. In fact, judging by their economic behavior, they are unusually future-focused. Confused? Then perhaps you’ve been spending your Saturday somewhere other than the … Continue reading
Yes, gay couples plan for the future. In fact, they’re really good at it.
Here’s an argument I didn’t expect to be making today: Yes, gay people care about the future. In fact, judging by their economic behavior, they are unusually future-focused. Confused? Then perhaps you’ve been spending your Saturday somewhere other than the … Continue reading
Yes, money really can buy happiness
“Does money buy happiness?” is the kind of open-ended question that inspires great novels and Baz Luhrmann movies, but it also has spawned quite a research program in economics. The University of Southern California’s Richard Easterlin kicked the discussion off … Continue reading
Wonkbook: Can immigration really get 70 votes in the Senate?
Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here. Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog. … Continue reading
Does an $8 million advertising campaign really make Obamacare into the Iraq War?
“Obamacare is the Iraq of the Obama administration,” tweets Ben Domenech. This is a wonderful piece of Twitter ephemera — both in its implicit view of what the Iraq war was, and what Obamacare is. But the link is even … Continue reading
Wonkbook: Are guns, gays and immigration really ‘too much’?
Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here. Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog. … Continue reading
Wonkbook: Are guns, gays and immigration really ‘too much’?
Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here. Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog. … Continue reading
Have seniors really paid for Medicare and Social Security?
“So essentially, you are in favor of genocide of seniors,” wrote one reader in response to my column on the best reason to worry about the deficit. “I was correct in my assessment of you.” The column, which you can … Continue reading
The $2.7 trillion question: Are health-care costs really slowing?
It is, unquestionably, the most important question in budget policy: How quickly will health spending grow? For decades, health-care costs have grown faster than the rest of the economy. That has required the federal government to devote an ever-growing chunk … Continue reading
The $2.7 trillion question: Are health-care costs really slowing?
It is, unquestionably, the most important question in budget policy: How quickly will health spending grow? For decades, health-care costs have grown faster than the rest of the economy. That has required the federal government to devote an ever-growing chunk … Continue reading