Alex Frommeyer

Money supply is significantly outpacing economic growth across major economies: Canada's M2 money supply has grown +368% since January 2004, the largest increase among G7 economies. By comparison, the Canadian economy has expanded +159% over the same period. The US follows, with M2 growth of +279% versus a +171% increase in nominal GDP. Meanwhile, M2 in France has surged +258% and +211% in the Euro Area, both outpacing nominal GDP growth of +84% and +102%, respectively. In Japan, M2 has grown +90% since 2004, while its economy expanded just +25%, the slowest pace among G7 economies. The gap between money creation and economic growth is widening.

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This will be such a nightmare.

Americans don’t know the insane sums their employers spend on healthcare unless they leave and see COBRA prices. We should disclose healthcare costs attributed to employees on each paystub. People could see costs very directly, see how they grow over time, and understand just how much potential wage income gets shipped off to United Healthcare or a local BCBS plan. It is very difficult to get excited about invisible taxes. There’s no reason invisible taxes need to stay that way.

The largest nurse and healthcare professional strike in Massachusetts history is underway in Boston this morning.

People are clowning on this but shouldn't. I recommend fiddling around with LLMs if you have a weird health thing that your doctors can't figure out. I had chronic digestive issues for a decade that had me sprawled out on the floor in agony on a regular basis. Horrible chest pain and hopelessness. Had all kinds of expensive scans and tests. Saw a half dozen specialists over the years who thought it was a heart thing or an esophagus thing or a hernia or a spasm or reflux etc. Finally ran all my symptoms in detail through ChatGPT and it immediately pinpointed gallbladder, because of one data point buried in my experience: the prolonged length of the "attacks" which lasted for hours at a time. I got a new test - confirmed gallbladder. A decade of pain resolved, just like that.

it is noteworthy that all famous western public healthcare systems are collapsing simultaneously. Canada, UK, Germany, … wait times to see a specialist are measured in months. the “look at the NHS and how good they have it” in US politics may be a unique feature of the late 2000s/early 2010s. it turns out that a blanket entitlement with structurally ever-growing demand and artificially constrained supply may not be tenable as a simple public finance matter. eventually you have to head to the tried-and-tested combination of deregulated private markets and technological innovation. in the US, the ACA is not nearly as far along in its structural dysfunction, but average premiums are now wildly expensive and the grumbling is mounting. similar pressures may eventually arise. i wonder if necessary change in other countries ends up moving the ACA discussion in the US.