MUS: actually we can and should explain such symptoms

Yes, We Can! (Should We?).

We Can, but Should We?

We can, but should we? After recently reflecting upon our profession as pediatric critical care physicians , I concluded that this one complex question gets asked many times throughout the day – or at least it should. A recent report discussed an emerging paradigm in pediatric critical care medicine (1). With more and more chronic patients filling our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), perha...

Can We Explain Banks' Capital Structures?

www.philadelphiafed.org While this view appears plausible, it actually contradicts the evidence of the last 20 years, which shows that banks do not appear to hold the minimum amount of equity required by regulators. Furthermore, while banks are typically highly leveraged compared with most nonfinancial firms, this doesn’t mean that similar forces are not at work when banks and nonfinancial firm...

Inflation Persistence: How Much Can We Explain?

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W Second Quarter 2003 M onetary policy is a controversial topic. Economists are still divided into two factions: those who believe that monetary policy does have real (inflation-adjusted) effects and those who are convinced that it affects only nominal variables, that is, nominal interest rates and prices. Until recently, almost any macr...

GUEST EDITORIAL Can We Actually Measure Health Disparities ?

F several decades, researchers around the world have studied demographic disparities in mortality. It is hard to know exactly how much money has been spent on this research. But certainly the amounts have run into the hundreds of million dollars. And, by and large, the conclusions of that research have been the same: The disparities have been increasing. But what if all that research was simply...