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Category: Economics

The Financial Value of DACA

By Phil Mayes Posted on September 5, 2017 Posted in Economics, Politics, Society No Comments Tagged with DACA, Immigrants

This graph* shows the net value to society of a person as they age. Initially, a child costs money for food, health and education. During the working years, they generate more value than they consume. In retirement, living and health …

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Reconciling the Various Reasons for Trump

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 15, 2017 Posted in Economics, Society No Comments Tagged with Election, Race, Trump

After the election, I concluded that Trump won with three appeals: Bring back jobs Drain the swamp Build the wall and that I approved of the first two. (It’s now clear that all three are unlikely to happen.) Many people …

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Why Poor People Vote Republican

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 4, 2014 Posted in Economics, Politics, Religion No Comments

Nice article in Salon suggesting that Republicans adopt a religious mantle to capture voters in the South for whom religion is so important that it trumps their economic interests.

The Effect of Patents on Drug Prices

By Phil Mayes Posted on October 14, 2013 Posted in Economics, Health care, Intellectual Property No Comments

The NYT has a good article on how patents enable drug companies to keep prices high – far higher than in other countries. For example, with the patent for the older oral contraceptive Loestrin 24Fe about to expire, the company …

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The Cost of Patent Trolls

By Phil Mayes Posted on June 27, 2012 Posted in Economics, Intellectual Property, Uncategorized No Comments

A paper by two Boston University researchers puts the annual cost of patent trolls at $29Bn.

How much money do you need to be rich?

By Phil Mayes Posted on August 18, 2008 Posted in Economics, Society No Comments

A speaker from San Clemente was  quoted as saying “We are one of those people that make over $250,000 a year, and I don’t agree that that makes us rich.”  The median household income for California is $54,000; for San …

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Who makes investment choices?

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 19, 2005 Posted in Economics, Society No Comments

Intersting column by Michael Kinsley claiming to prove that privatising Social Security won’t work. He makes a similar point to one that I have claimed several times, only to get blank stares: that whether a dollar of earnings is spent …

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