Weekend Readings - Interesting Items

Economic Geography:

Rust Belt Cities Should Try Embracing the Suburbs

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-05/city-suburb-consolidation-might-reverse-rust-belt-urban-decline

Why Germany has no gilet jaunes protesters
https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/02/09/why-germany-has-no-gilet-jaunes-protesters

Vaccines and Externalities: A global wave of measles cases fed by conspiracies and misinformation has health officials worried

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/08/global-wave-measles-cases-fed-by-conspiracies-misinformation-has-health-officials-worried/

Federal Reserve chair calls income inequality the biggest challenge in next 10 years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/07/federal-reserve-chair-calls-income-inequality-americas-biggest-challenge-next-years/

Why Power in the Senate Is Increasingly Imbalanced

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-08/senate-power-imbalance-tilts-toward-least-populous-states