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 : 2019-10-26

Today’s selection of articles:

1. “Elizabeth Warren wants to remake American capitalism” (The Economist, 2019-10-24). The editors praise Warren’s concern for America’s middle class while casting doubt on her “faith in government as benign and effective” and her “vilification of business”.
2. “Comparison is the thief of joy“, by Steve Magness (The Passion Paradox, 2019-10-22). Goals and benchmarks can spur improvement. Coach Magness reminds us that by themselves, they can also hold us back. Remember the joy of the pursuit, and cultivate a warranted trust in yourself.
3. “Defending science in a post-fact era“, by Jill Radsken (The Harvard Gazette, 2019-10-22). Dr Naomi Oreskes, whose works has transitioned from geology to the history of science, shares her reflections on the scientific process and her experience sharing its merits with doubters.

   One interesting aspect of this article was, despite the presence of her own values and biases (sometimes bordering on élitism — see her comments on belligerent questions and her “Red State Pledge”), Dr Oreskes’s openness to critical questions (see her magnanimous interpretation of the belligerent question) and her passion for sharing her views in oft-shunned areas. Perhaps these qualities are big contributors to her clarity of thought and expression.