Thoma

The big flaw in Thoma's argument is that he treats costs as an exogenous variable that are unaffected by the structure of the health care system, especially how we finance it.

Physician Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

We then crossed the river and ascended a branch called Thoma's

Journal of a Trapper 1914

Aimee Kvasir Nate Thoma, shown in 2006, changed the course of a bank bankruptcy.

Hipster Battles Funds Matt Wirz 2011

Those securities were quoted at around one cent in November 2008, when Mr. Thoma first started buying—they are now at 16 cents—but they rarely traded and were hard to buy through his online brokerage account.

Hipster Battles Funds Matt Wirz 2011

Soft-spoken and with about $500,000 in investments, Mr. Thoma is an unlikely agent for change in the halls of American finance and an even more unwelcome adversary for the hedge funds involved.

Hipster Battles Funds Matt Wirz 2011

Mr. Thoma says he is still obsessed with the case, and his wife has banned Washington Mutual from household conversations.

Hipster Battles Funds Matt Wirz 2011

Via Mark Thoma, Daniel Little examines some of the factors holding back American social mobility.

Wonk Room » The WonkLine: August 20, 2009 2009

In the following months, Mr. Thoma bought in lots of 500 or 1,000 units.

Hipster Battles Funds Matt Wirz 2011

That hill metaphor was borrowed from economist Mark Thoma.

Matthew Yglesias » The Time for Bipartisanship 2009

Mr. Thoma suspected the buying was being made by hedge funds, which already owned the bank's bonds.

Hipster Battles Funds Matt Wirz 2011