Hong Kong’s suicide

I have been observing the events in Hong Kong quite silently for a while, expecting them to die down with time. But it seems that the tensions are going to last for a while longer, as the protesters appear to be emboldened by what they may think are their successes

Gluttony, not greed, makes US healthcare so costly

Yesterday Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health released a study in which it claims that "the United States, on a per capita basis, spends much more on health care than other developed countries; the chief reason is not greater health care utilization, but higher prices" Is American

Who needs Britain anyway?

Three weeks away from the referendum about UK’s future in the EU the atmosphere is heating up as the latest polls show a slight advantage in favor of Brexit. What keeps surprising me is how many grim predictions are made about the future of the EU, should Britain leave.