Economics and International Affairs Blog
A politically independent blog by Vivekanand Jayakumar
Friday, June 5, 2020
India's Foreign Policy
India’s Appeasement Policy Toward China Unravels
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/india-appeasement-china-border-standoff-by-brahma-chellaney-2020-06
India’s foreign affairs strategy
by Shivshankar Menon
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/India27s-foreign-affairs-strategy.pdf
Related:
https://www.cfr.org/blog/reflections-indias-foreign-affairs-strategy
India and Australia sign military pact as China tensions rise
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/India-and-Australia-sign-military-pact-as-China-tensions-rise
US Labor Market Data
The Jobs Numbers: Who’s Hiring in America—and Who’s Not
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/jobs-numbers
Related:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-05/u-s-jobless-rate-unexpectedly-fell-in-may-as-hiring-rebounded
Economists predicted 20 percent employment in May. How did they get it so wrong?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/05/unemployment-rate-wrong/
Shocking Jobs Report Boosts Yield-Curve Steepening
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-05/jobs-report-yield-curve-steepening-boosted-by-shocker
Fewer jobs cut than predicted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/05/may-2020-jobs-report/
The Economic Pain That the Unemployment Rate Leaves Out
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/05/upshot/what-the-pandemic-unemployment-rate-leaves-out.html
How healthy is Trump’s economy?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/jobs-report/
Thursday, June 4, 2020
America's Spending Priorities
U.S. spends twice as much on law and order as it does on cash welfare, data show
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/04/us-spends-twice-much-law-order-it-does-social-welfare-data-show/
Spending So Much on Police Has Real Downsides
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-04/police-budgets-reflect-political-power-not-need-to-control-crime
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
The Next Wave of Job Cuts
Next Wave of U.S. Job Cuts Targets Millions of Higher-Paid Workers
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-how-many-more-jobs-will-be-lost/
Automation and the Manufacturing Sector
Coronavirus Is Forcing Companies to Speed Up Automation, For Better and For Worse
https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonchandler/2020/05/12/coronavirus-is-forcing-companies-to-speed-up-automation-for-better-and-for-worse/#603cfefe5906
The Rise of Automation: How Robots May Impact the U.S. Labor Market
https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/second-quarter-2019/rise-automation-robots
Deglobalization - A Bad Idea
Deglobalization Will Hurt Growth Everywhere
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/deglobalization-threat-to-world-economy-and-united-states-by-kenneth-rogoff
The Threat Posed by Social Media
Amid George Floyd protests, weaponized misinformation floods social media
https://www.cnet.com/news/amid-george-floyd-protests-social-media-is-weaponizing-misinformation/
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