Economics and International Affairs Blog

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Policing in America

How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapolis-kroll.html

Bust the Police Unions to Rank and Yank Bad Cops

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bust-the-police-unions-to-rank-and-yank-bad-cops-11591400622

Lawmakers Begin Bipartisan Push to Cut Off Police Access to Military-Style Gear

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/police-military-gear.html

How we can change our policy choices to reduce police violence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-we-can-change-our-policy-choices-to-reduce-police-violence/2020/06/01/211cd4ea-a43b-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

Police Union Privileges

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/06/police-union-privileges-revisited.html

If we want less violence from the enforcers, we should give them less to enforce.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-05/lawmakers-deserve-as-much-blame-as-the-police

This doctrine has nullified accountability for police. The Supreme Court can rethink it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-the-supreme-court-rectify-its-qualified-immunity-mistake/2020/05/12/05659d0e-9478-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html

Markets versus Reality

A Tug-of-War Between Bulls and Bears Is Muddling Risk Indicators

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-02/tug-of-war-between-bulls-and-bears-is-muddling-risk-indicators

Monday, June 1, 2020

Australia's Water Woes

Australia’s Water Is Vanishing

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-australia-drought-water-crisis/

Doing Business in Emerging Markets

Ambani reshapes Reliance for digital India with Jio deals

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Company-in-focus/Ambani-reshapes-Reliance-for-digital-India-with-Jio-deals

Japan's Kubota ties up with Indian peer to make tractors for Africa

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Agriculture/Japan-s-Kubota-ties-up-with-Indian-peer-to-make-tractors-for-Africa2

Bangladesh goes to bat for textile industry as buyers scrap orders

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade/Bangladesh-goes-to-bat-for-textile-industry-as-buyers-scrap-orders2

India Inc’s profits increasingly belong to a tiny clutch of companies
https://www.economist.com/business/2020/05/21/india-incs-profits-increasingly-belong-to-a-tiny-clutch-of-companies

Death of the coffee king: power and money in corporate India

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Cover-Story/Death-of-the-coffee-king-power-and-money-in-corporate-India

Amazon in India

India Is Becoming Its Own Silicon Valley

Goldman Sachs in India

Shenzhen – Hardware Capital of the World

Reshaping the G-7 - Trump Gets One Right

Enough of the G7, let’s try a G10

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/06/01/commentary/world-commentary/enough-g7-lets-try-g10/

Trump seeks to shape world opinion on China with expanded G-7

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Trump-seeks-to-shape-world-opinion-on-China-with-expanded-G-7
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Jeremy Cliffe, International Editor of the New Statesman, notes:

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2020/05/china-s-growing-belligerence-only-hurting-itself

“There are few limits on China’s military and economic power - the notion that it is threatened by tiny Hong Kong and Taiwan is absurd - what the country really lacks is friends. But for a few craven and transactional partners (Pakistan, Cambodia, Serbia and, perhaps increasingly, Russia) it is a lonely power that lacks genuinely committed and trusting allies of that sort that underpinned America’s long years of superpower-dom. China’s aggression, ultimately, hurts one country more than any other: China itself.”