Safe Food: Should We Be Afraid?

Safe food: should we be afraid?

comment on Schmidt CW: Safe food: an all-consuming issue. Environ Health Perspect 107:A144-A149 (1999).

Should We Be Afraid of Friedman’s Rule?

Should one think of zero nominal interest rates as an undesirable liquidity trap or as the desirable Friedman rule? I use three different frameworks to discuss this issue. First, I restate H. L. Cole and N. Kocherlakota’s (1998, Fed. Res. Bank Minn. Quart. Rev., Spring, 2–10) analysis of Friedman’s rule: short run increases in the money stock—whether through issuing spending coupons, open marke...

Should we be afraid of the dark

We exploit a unique natural experiment – recent restrictions of dark trading in Canada – and proprietary trade-level data to analyze the effects of dark trading. Disaggregating two types of dark trading, we find that dark limit order markets are beneficial to market quality, reducing quoted, effective and realized spreads and increasing informational efficiency. In contrast, dark midpoint cross...

Food safety education: what should we be teaching to consumers?

Food safety education is most effective when messages are targeted toward changing behaviors most likely to result in foodborne illness. The five major control factors for pathogens are personal hygiene, adequate cooking, avoiding cross-contamination, keeping food at safe temperatures, and avoiding foods from unsafe sources. Pathogens associated with poor personal hygiene have the highest incid...

Should we all be vegetarians?