Cavalcade of Risk #63

The latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk is up at John Cogan’s Regulating Health Insurance.  Mr. Cogan even claimed that I’m “everyone’s favorite graduate student.”  Some of my favorite posts include: Blogging is a dangerous profession and may require blogging insurance. Lawrence G. Lux discusses the financial crisis. David Williams discusses physician bias in…

CoR #56

The latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk is hosted by Michael Cannon at the Cato@Liberty blog.  Some of my favorite posts include: The Million Dollar Journey blog talks about the advent of Critical Illness (CI) insurance.  This is similar to the contingent claims insurance contract which economists have advocated–but has been difficult to apply…

Cavalcade of Risk #52

There was this statistics student who, when driving his car, would always accelerate hard before coming to any junction, whizz straight over it , then slow down again once he’d got over it. One day, he took a passenger, who was understandably unnerved by his driving style, and asked him why he went so fast…