Read : 2023-03-12

Articles for reading

1. “The death of Silicon Valley Bank” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-11).

Articles for reference

Arts

1. “The 55 best Oscars red carpet dresses of all time” by Christian Allaire (Vogue, 2023-03-06).

Cybersecurity

1. “After the LastPass hack, can you trust password managers?” by Nicole Nguyen (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-12).

Economics

1. “ChatGPT, please take my job!” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-04).
2. “How America soaks the affluent” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03).
3. “Can the Phillips curve explain recent wage growth?” by Alex Domash, Lawrence H. Summers (CEPR, 2023-02-27).
4. “Hot dogs can explain our view of inflation and employment changes with the seasons” by Kara Dapena, Austen Hufford (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-07).
5. “Junk-rated companies are borrowing again” by Sam Goldfarb, Alana Pipe (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-06).
6. “Fragmented globalism” by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-08).
7. “Labor market vs inflation” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-03-09).
8. “The employment situation—February 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-03-10).
9. “What does Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse mean for the financial system?” (The Economist, 2023-03-10).
10. “Why was there a run on Silicon Valley Bank?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-10).
11. “The death of Silicon Valley Bank” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-11).
12. “Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC” (US Department of the Treasury, 2023-03-12).
13. “Preventing panic in the banking sector” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-12).

Health and medicine

1. “Young people are hurting, and their parents are feeling it” by Samatha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-06).
2. “The morning” by Emily Bazelon (The New York Times, 2023-03-08). Subtitled, “Since Roe v. Wade ended, the battle over legal abortion has largely shifted to access to pills.”

Investing

1. “Crypto companies behind Tether used falsified documents and shell companies to get bank accounts” by Ben Foldy, Ada Hui (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03).

Law

1. “Is a distrusted judiciary ‘truly the beginning of the end’?” by Brett Milano (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-07).
2. “The U.S. is in the ‘midst of an identity crisis’” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-08).

Politics

1. “How did Americans come to trust markets more than government?” by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-03).
2. “Democrats and Republicans grill Fed Chair Jerome Powell in Senate Banking Comittee” by Forbes Breaking News (YouTube, 2023-03-07). “The semiannual monetary policy report to the Congress”.
3. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2023-03-09). Subtitled, “Both U.S. political parties are now open to the idea that covid may have come from a lab in China.”
4. “China’s new way to control its biggest companies: golden shares” by Lingling Wei (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-08).
5. “Biden’s budget proposal for 2024: What to know” by Andrew Restuccia, Andrew Duehren (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-08).
6. “U.K. privacy bill aims to reduce the burden on business” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-08).
7. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-03-10). Subtitled, “Is the Democratic party again starting to pay more attention to labor unions?”
8. “America and China are preparing for a war over Taiwan” (The Economist, 2023-03-09).
9. “China’s new head of government, Li Qiang, has Xi Jinping’s ear” (The Economist, 2023-03-12).

Science and technology

1. “Electric vehicles are shattering the barrier to adoption that could matter most” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-04).
2. “The algorithm society and its discontents” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-06).
3. “How Google became cautious of AI and gave Microsoft an opening” by Miles Kruppa, Sam Schechner (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-07).

Society

1. “In aging Japan, one town holds the secret to making more babies” by Miho Inada (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03).
2. “Can apprenticeships work in the US? Employers seeking new talent pipelines take note” by Michael Blanding (Harvard Business School : Working Knowledge, 2023-02-28).
3. “An evening without Gary Lineker” (The Economist, 2023-03-12).

Other

1. “Interview: Kevin Kelly, editor, author, and futurist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-07).
2. “A weight gain theory of everything” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2023-03-09).

Read : 2021-10-28

Today’s selection of articles:

1. “How to raise a feminist son” by Claire Cain Miller (The NY Times, 2017-06-02).
2. “Looking back at the first Roaring Twenties” by Robert J. Shiller (The NY Times, 2021-04-16).
3. “Stock, bond, and real-estate prices are all uncomfortably high” by Robert J. Shiller (The NY Times, 2021-10-01).
4. “#12 – Robert Shiller, Narrative economics” by Jeff Feiwell (The Narrative Monopoly, 2021-04-22).
5. “Children could be dangerous carriers of virus” by Susie Flaherty (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-10-14).
6. “Noam Chomsky on the cruelty of American imperialism” by Noam Chomsky (The Economist, 2021-09-24).
7. “American power” (The Economist, 2021-08). A gateway to “by invitation” articles on “the sources of America’s power and the forces changing it”.
8. “No. 2 Louisville holds off No. 4 Pitt in five sets” by Grady Dillon (Louisville Cardinals, 2021-10-24). Watch the match (1h58m).
9. “Democratic voters want Biden’s big spending deal — and they’re getting impatient” by Eliza Collins & Tarini Parti (The Wall Street Journal, 2021-10-21).
10. “The inflation catch-up game” by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Project Syndicate, 2021-10-21).
11. “Jeremy Grantham — A historic market bubble” by Patrick O’Shaughnessy (Invest Like the Best, 2021-02-22). 1h04m36s podcast with full transcript. Also available on Apple Podcasts.
12. “This year’s econ critics make a few good points” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2021-10-24).
13. “How Tesla gained $175 billion in value from Hertz’s $4 billion order. It makes perfect sense.” by Al Root (Barron’s, 2021-10-26).
14. “Banks’ debt sales are driving the corporate bond market” by Ben Eisen (The Wall Street Journal, 2021-10-26).
15. “Podcast: How pricing algorithms learn to collude” (MIT Technology Review, 2021-10-27).
16. “What are the pluses and minuses of a wealth tax?” by David Leonhardt (The NY Times, 2021-10-28).
17. “Amnesty International exits Hong Kong, citing national security law” by Dan Strumpf (The Wall Street Journal, 2021-10-25).

Read : 2019-09-28

Today’s selection of articles:

1. “Harvard EdCast: Understanding immigration“, by Jill Anderson (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2019-09-18). An interview with Harvard Professor Roberto Gonzales.
2. “Now-ranked Rice Owls volleyball enjoy signature win” (KHOU News, 2019-09-25).
3. “Exercise is medicine“, by Lindsay Peyton (Houston Chronicle, 2019-09-26).

Articles on multiplication (multiplication? yes, multiplication!):

1. “On your mark, get set, multiply“, by Patrick Honner (Quanta Magazine, 2019-09-23). A look at the Karatsuba algorithm.
2. “Mathematicians discover the perfect way to multiply“, by Kevin Hartnett (Quanta Magazine, 2019-04-11). Clocking multiplication algorithms.

Selected articles about Trump, Ukraine, and American politics:

1. “The impeachment inquiry: Off and running but with some key blind spots” (OZY, 2019-09-25). An interview with former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin.
2. “Pelosi announces impeachment inquiry, says Trump’s courting of foreign political help is a ‘betrayal of national security’“, by Rachael Bade, Mike DeBonis, & Karoun Demirjian (Washington Post, 2019-09-24).
3. “Today may be the most important day of Trump’s tenure“, by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post, 2019-09-24). An opinion piece that captures well the prevailing politicized sentiments. “Pelosi likes to say public sentiment is everything.” This fiasco is not solely about morality, abuse of power, etc. It is also political warfare, assertion of power, and total domination.
4. “Whistleblower alleges White House effort to conceal details of Trump call with Ukraine“, by Dustin Volz, Warren P. Strobel, & Siobhan Hughes (Wall Street Journal, 2019-09-26).
5. “Whistleblower complaint” (Wall Street Journal).
6. “Donald Trump urged Ukraine to investigate the Bidens“, by Lexington (The Economist, 2019-09-25).
7. “The move towards impeachment marks a dangerous shift” (The Economist, 2019-09-26).
8. “Trump call transcript summary shows he pressed Ukranian president to probe Biden“, by Grace Segers, Katrhyn Watson, Clare Hymes, & Emily Tillett (CBS, 2019-09-25). This article embeds the five-page call transcript.
9. “2016 Democratic National Committee email leak” (Wikipedia). CrowdStrike is one of the cybersecurity firms cited as having “reviewed the DNC servers” and alleged that the source of the DNC hacks was two Russian intelligence groups. Wikipedia also cites Comey as stating that CrowdStrike gave the FBI “copies of the [DNC] servers and all the information on them, as well as access to forensics”.