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The Economist on the Obama Presidency

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21712062-barack-obamas-presidency-lurched-between-idealism-and-acrimony-some-his

My 2017 Prediction? Nothing Will Change by Satyajit Das

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-01/my-2017-prediction-nothing-will-change

Marc Levinson on Long Term Economic Growth

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/embracing-an-ordinary-economy/511208/

The Abandonment of Progress by Jean Pisani-Ferry

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/populism-and-abandonment-of-progress-by-jean-pisani-ferry-2017-01