Enlightening new piece this week from Dan O'Neill that lays out all the bureaucracy private insurers require before new PCPs can start caring for patients. "After almost three years of paperwork, our practice abandoned plans to start care in the Inland Empire."

When productivity can’t keep up, costs rise. That’s cost disease—and it explains much of the pressure families feel today. Encouraging to see leaders beginning to take this challenge seriously. Read Greg Ip: wsj.com/economy/jake-a…

This is why just subsidizing the cost of living isn't an adequate approach:. Read Samuel Hammond 🦉, Steve Teles, and Daniel Takash: niskanencenter.org/cost-disease-s…

Pope Leo XIV crafted the following prayer for Gen Z to pray amidst their anxieties:

The correct response any time says “but people said other technologies were bad” is “yeah, and they were right.” It’s just super obvious.

Standardized testing is the worst admissions system, except for all the others

Important point by Megan McArdle -- greater certainty of some consequence deters crime more effectively than severe but rare punishments.. Link in next tweet

Talking to younger millennials & Gen Z - I hear a similar refrain. They feel fundamental pieces of the American Dream are out of reach. Something like “I’ll never own a home so why not buy the $10 drink”. I think the economic pessimism also applies to the surge in online

Good speech by Ueda on how Japan's aging demographics are driving up wages. Increasing participation rates and retiring at a later age have reached their limits. It's look like the theory that aging demographics is inflationary will be validated. boj.or.jp/en/about/press…

Lots of great stuff in here. Would underscore Rachael’s point about reimbursement policy being an important part of a health agenda. It’s a powerful tool to bring down healthcare costs as well!

BoJ Governor Ueda: aging population and falling birth rates in the 80s are creating a secular labor shortage today and driving up wages to sustain/amplify inflation shocks. He describes various ways in which Japanese economy has responded to labor shortage: delayed retirement,

Recommended reading from the The Wall Street Journal on one of the Democratic Party’s most compelling thought leaders, Rep. Jake Auchincloss 🟧. I think he’s exactly right: Democrats lose when we’re “not perceived as upholding social order” — on crime, public drug use, homelessness, and affordability. (1/2)

I don’t trust the railroads to regulate themselves, and neither should you. Let’s pass my Railway Safety Act!

Pope Leo telling us that it is not enough to just believe in Jesus, go to church, and be orthodox. Our way of living must be transformed.

Finally getting around to the Atlantic piece on Canadian euthanasia. Elaina Plott Calabro is a tremendous writer.

Today we join our Ukrainian brothers and sisters who, through the spiritual initiative “World Prayer for Ukraine,” are asking the Lord to grant peace to their war-torn country.

"We know that in some places in our country, it’s easier to access MAID than it is to get a wheelchair." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Had a mentor tell me once: "When you're feeling overwhelmed, there are only two things you should do: get organized and get to work. The rest is just noise. Peace is found in progress."

Speed and seriousness. Exactly what we need. In the new USGS criticality assessments, rare earths stand apart as the materials most threatened by disruption.

Just wrapped with Bloomberg Bloomberg. Big day for nuclear energy in Utah. Let's go! 🦾