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Graduate Loans: Hollywood and Universities

A recent study shows how elite universities have awarded thousands of master’s degrees that don’t provide enough career earnings to pay down the federal student loans. This is an issue that is dear to me: I explain why students “take such bets” and why universities are sometimes like the movie industry, and what could be done to improve the system.

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China Tech under the Squeeze

On the heels of Didi going public, China’s Cyberspace Administration came down hard and suspended the registration of new users from the company. What’s going on? As Springfield’s lyrics go, “There’s something happening here. But what it is ain’t exactly clear.” I begin the series of posts looking at the regulation of Tech in China.

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Last Mile Problems in Vaccination

Last-mile delivery problems are hard. Vaccine hesitancy is real but is often used as a crutch to hide the real lack of costly effort necessary to literally reach the doorstep of every person willing to be vaccinated. Lotteries and Prizes are great to kickstart the drive, but we need specific, costly, non-scalable efforts to achieve our goals of full recovery.

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