Read : 2023-04-02

Articles for reading

1. “How deep is the rot in America’s banking industry?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
2. “What’s wrong with the banks” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
3. “The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
4. “The death of Credit Suisse” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-25).
5. “The Fed’s role in the bank failures” by Raghuram G. Rajan, Viral V. Acharya (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-28).
6. “In era of bitter division, what would Socrates do?” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-27).

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Economics

1. “The takeconomy” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-03-16).
2. “What’s wrong with the banks” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
3. “The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
4. “How deep is the rot in America’s banking industry?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
5. “The Federal Reserve must choose between inflation and market chaos” (The Economist, 2023-03-19).
6. “Bailouts for everyone?” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-14). An interview with former Fed governor Daniel Tarullo.
7. “More turbulence likely ahead after bank collapses” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-15). An interview with Lawrence H. Summers, former US Treasury Secretary.
8. “SVB and the Fed” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-15).
9. “The Fed’s $300B emergency response” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-18).
10. “Fifty years of floating currencies” by Jeffrey Frankel (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-20).
11. “How bad was the Silicon Valley Bank bailout?” by Paul Krugman (The New York Times, 2023-03-14).
12. “What gets lost when you rescue markets” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-17).
13. “Prospects of avoiding recessing fading” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-23).
14. “When a bank fails, there’s always a villain” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-24).
15. “Let the banks burn” by Yanis Varoufakis (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-24).
16. “Price stability vs. financial stability?” by Willem H. Buiter (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-20).
17. “The Fed must not flinch” by Michael R. Strain (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-21).
18. “The death of Credit Suisse” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-03-25).
19. “After Credit Suisse’s demise, attention turns to Deutsche Bank” (The Economist, 2023-03-24).
20. “The Fed’s role in the bank failures” by Raghuram G. Rajan, Viral V. Acharya (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-28).
21. “How bank oversight failed: The economy changed, regulators didn’t” by Andrew Ackerman, Angel Au-Yeung, Hannah Miao (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-24).
22. “Policymakers face two nightmares: stubborn inflation and market chaos” (The Economist, 2023-03-23).
23. “Will the recent banking chaos lead to an economic crash?” (The Economist, 2023-03-28).
24. “As interest rates rose, banks did a balance-sheet switcheroo” by Jonathan Weil (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-29).
25. “Why inflation persists” by Lars P. Feld (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-31).
26. “What killed Signature Bank?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-04-01).

Education

1. “Why did America’s leaders stop caring about schools?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
2. “What we talk about when we talk about Math 55” by Sage S. Lattman (The Harvard Crimson, 2023-03-25).
3. “The ascent of Chinese education” by Paul Massari (Harvard University GSAS, 2023-03-16).

Mathematics

1. “Surprise computer science proof stuns mathematicians” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-21).
2. “Is there math beyond the equal sign?” by Steven Strogatz (Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-22). 50m podcast interview with Eugenia Cheng.

Politics

1. “Unions’ extension into politics was necessar—and contributed to their decline, says Harvard Law expert” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-16).
2. “Emmanuel Macron’s government survives, but there is more trouble ahead” (The Economist, 2023-03-20).
3. “Will Bibi break Israel?” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
4. “How China benefits from another US banking crisis” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-24).
5. “America’s industrial policy is counterproductive” by Anne O. Krueger (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-22).
6. “A TikTok ban may be just the beginning” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-25).
7. “Japan and Germany are again preparing for war” by Ian Baruma (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-24).
8. “Lawmakers scold Fed over Silicon Valley Bank collapse” by Andrew Ackerman, David Harrison, Andrew Duehren (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-28).
9. “Tick TikTok goes globalization” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-29).

Science and technology

1. “Why China has edge on AI, what ancient emperors tell us about Xi Jinping” by Christy DeSmith (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-16).
2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-03-24). Subtitled, “A federal judge spoke at Stanford Law School. Chaos ensued.”
3. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-03-24).
4. “Wormhole experiment called into question” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-23).
5. “Artificial idiocy” by Slavoj Žižek (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-23).

Society

1. “Why America is going to look more like Texas” (The Economist, 2023-03-16).
2. “Progressives need to embrace progress” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-22).
3. “In era of bitter division, what would Socrates do?” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-27).
4. “Culture belongs to everyone (and no one)” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-23).

Other

1. “Naughty nuns, flatulent monks, and other surprises of sacred medieval manuscripts” by Hunter Oatman-Stanford (Collectors Weekly, 2014-07-24). An interview with Kaitlin Manning.

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).