The tariffs are coming, or not, for pharmaceuticals. How they are determined will make a difference in your expenditures.
“For instance, a finished drug imported from Italy may contain an ingredient made in India. This creates a challenge for determining national security risks, since it is not unusual for some medicines to rely on different components or production activities from different countries.”
From STAT, a primer on pharmaceuticals and tariffs, How to think about Trump’s pharma tariffs — before they hit
Austin Kleon has been a touchstone in my “creative side” since his book Steal Like An Artist. As a fellow writer, he knows the importance of reading broadly to write better. Here are his ten tips for reading. As Tyler Cowen would say, self-recommending. How to read like an artist
When you really begin to look around, infrastructure is everywhere. For example, our electronic age would have arrived much later or been more costly if it were not for a man named Jackling.
“Chuquicamata, which opened in earnest a few years after Bingham Canyon, is probably the most important mine to use Jackling’s methods. This site, high up in the Atacama Desert, has produced more copper than any other place on earth. Roughly one in 14 of every atom of copper ever mined came from this place, of which few have heard, let alone visited. There’s a good bet there’s some Chuquicamata copper in the device on which you’re reading this, but since we don’t pay all that much attention to copper and where it comes from, most people are none the wiser.”
From Works in Progress, The Discovery of Copper
Why would we ban this lecture or any lecture at our Naval Academy?
“My intention is not to embarrass anyone or cause trouble. In fact, if anyone was afraid of controversy, they would have been disappointed, which is sort of the point. We have gotten to a place where even a basic defense of intellectual freedom is now considered “too political” for a government institution. Still, I could not in good conscience deliver a lecture about wisdom and not address the fact of the removal of books from a library a few hundred yards away.”
From The Free Press, This Is the Lecture That the Naval Academy Didn’t Want Me to Give
Chuck Dinerstein, MD, MBA
Director of Medicine
Dr. Charles Dinerstein, M.D., MBA, FACS is Director of Medicine at the American Council on Science and Health. He has over 25 years of experience as a vascular surgeon.
