Udayan Roy: August 2019

Historic Asset Boom Passes by Half of Families By David Harrison | Graphics by Danny Dougherty and Maureen Linke, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 30, 2019
Can an infusion of public R&D investment revitalize a lagging economy? PBS Newshour, August 29, 2019
How Economists’ Faith in Markets Broke America by Sebastian Mallaby, The Atlantic, September 2019
Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, Aug. 24, 2019
Should Government ‘Pick Winners’? It’s Worked Before By Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion, August 22, 2019
Don’t worry too much about all the uproar over the inverted yield curve By Allan Sloan, The Washington Post, August 23, 2019
The Economist Who Believes the Government Should Just Print More Money By Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, August 20, 2019
What’s the Deal With That Inverted Yield Curve? A Sports Analogy Might Help By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019

I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have. By Brian X. Chen, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019
In Delaying Tariffs, Trump Faces Up to Economic Reality By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Aug. 14, 2019

President Trump insists China is paying the full cost of his tariffs. But his decision to push some of them off until December is an admission of their impact on American consumers.

What Makes an American? By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, Aug. 9, 2019
The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism By Jo Becker, The New York Times, Aug. 10, 2019
Prices for many goods do not move the way economists think they should The Economist, August 8, 2019
College Still Pays Off, but Not for Everyone By Josh Mitchell, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 9, 2019
Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns By Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times, August 8, 2019
Circulating in China’s Financial System: More Than $200 Billion in I.O.U.s By Alexandra Stevenson and Cao Li, The New York Times, August 6, 2019
Russians Flock to Easy Loans as Income Dips By Ann M. Simmons, The Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2019
Economics is a failing discipline doing great harm – so let's rethink it by Andrew Simms, The Guardian, August 3, 2019
Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class By AnnaMaria Andriotis, Ken Brown and Shane Shifflett, The Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2019
Japan has weaponized its trade relationship with South Korea By Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, The Washington Post, August 1, 2019

By restricting the export of key chemicals, Japan threatens South Korea’s electronics industry.

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