Interview: Reinhart and Rogoff

Harvard’s Reinhart and Rogoff Say This Time Really Is Different

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-18/harvard-s-financial-crisis-experts-this-time-really-is-different 

Red States versus Blue States: Relative Economic Performance and Fiscal Policy Issues

Republican-dominated states lag in growth and debt performance.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-18/coronavirus-economy-investors-don-t-share-trump-blue-state-scorn

‘Blue state bailouts’? Some states like New York send billions more to federal government than they get back

https://theconversation.com/blue-state-bailouts-some-states-like-new-york-send-billions-more-to-federal-government-than-they-get-back-137950

“The biggest givers in our latest report, based on 2018 data, were New York, which paid in US$35 billion more than it received; New Jersey, which paid $21 billion more; Massachusetts, which paid $16 billion more; and Connecticut, which paid $14 billion more than it received.

Combined, these states paid over $50 billion more in taxes than they received in federal spending”. 

Trump’s leadership failure makes a feeble economy and resurgent virus more likely

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-leadership-vacuum-makes-a-feeble-economy-and-resurgent-virus-more-likely/2020/05/17/b53a62c4-96cf-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html

The Future of Work, Office Design, and Urban Living

Covid-19 Won’t Change Everything for Workers. Right?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-13/covid-19-won-t-change-everything-for-workers-right

Work from Home Is Fine . . . For Now

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-16/work-from-home-problems-will-becomes-clear-with-time

Welcome to your new, post-pandemic office

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/14/success/office-look-like-after-coronavirus/index.html

Why Gen Z will be hit the hardest by the financial fallout from coronavirus

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/business/coronavirus-generation-z-jobs-intl-gbr/index.html

A Backlash Against Cities Would Be Dangerous

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/urban-density-not-problem/611752/ 

Useful History Lessons

The Lessons of the Great Depression

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/how-rebuild-nation/611704/

How plagues change the world

https://www.newstatesman.com/2020/05/how-plagues-change-world 

Where are Stocks Headed?

Options Market Signals a Dire Picture for Stocks

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-18/options-market-signals-a-dire-outlook-for-stocks

Have the Record Number of Investors in the Stock Market Lost Their Minds?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/have-the-record-number-of-investors-in-the-stock-market-lost-their-minds

When Warren Buffett Sours on Goldman Sachs, Time to Worry

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-15/warren-buffett-sours-on-goldman-sachs-time-to-worry

The S&P 500 Was Stopped in Its Tracks Last Week. Here’s Why Another Drop Could Be in the Offing.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-sp-500-was-stopped-in-its-tracks-last-week-heres-why-another-drop-could-be-in-the-offing-51589589650 

This is the most expensive time to buy stocks in 20 years

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/investing/stock-market-dow-coronavirus-goldman-sachs/index.html 

Covid-19 Exposes the Decline of US State Capacity

Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown [FREE TO READ ARTICLE]

https://www.ft.com/content/97dc7de6-940b-11ea-abcd-371e24b679ed

What went wrong in the president’s first real crisis — and what does it mean for the US?

Crisis exposes how U.S. has hollowed out its government

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/government-hollowed-out-weaknesses/

Related:

https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2020/03/state-capacity-matters.html 

Revamping Indo-Pacific Alliances

India and Japan should seize chance to form close alliance

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/India-and-Japan-should-seize-chance-to-form-close-alliance

Rise of the Quad-Plus in the Indo-Pacific Region
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2020/05/rise-indo-pacific 

Japan and India — a special relationship

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2019/11/22/commentary/japan-commentary/japan-india-special-relationship/

U.S.-India Defense Ties Grow Closer as Shared Concerns in Asia Loom

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/world/asia/india-military-exercises-trump.html