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What We Are Reading

China’s Fading Recovery Reveals Deeper Economic Struggles – Stella Yifan Xie and Jason Douglas, The Wall Street Journal

May 30, 2023

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Hard or Soft Landing? Some Economists See Neither if Growth Accelerates – Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal

February 14, 2023

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Big Hedge Funds Are Top Performers, for a Change – Gregory Zuckerman, The Wall Street Journal

January 19, 2023

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A Strong U.S. Dollar Buoys Small-Cap Companies’ Stocks – Hannah Miao, The Wall Street Journal

October 17, 2022

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Apple Suppliers Add Manufacturing Sites in U.S., With Focus on California – Yang Jie, The Wall Street Journal

October 5, 2022

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Don’t Give Up on the Stock Market – Burton G. Malkiel, The Wall Street Journal

September 22, 2022

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The Lords of Money Pose Massive Threats to Markets – James Mackintosh, The Wall Street Journal

June 20, 2022

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Is Larry Summers Really Right About Inflation and Biden? – John Cassidy, The New Yorker

April 11, 2022

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Will Inflation Stay High for Decades? One Influential Economist Says Yes – Tom Fairless, The Wall Street Journal

March 10, 2022

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Why the Sustainable Investment Craze Is Flawed – James Mackintosh, Wall Street Journal

January 24, 2022

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Byron Wien and Joe Zidle Announce the Ten Surprises of 2022, Blackstone

January 3, 2022

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Could search engines be fostering some Dunning-Kruger? – John Timmer, Ars Technica

October 21, 2021

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‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours – McKinsey Quarterly – September 8th, 2021

October 12, 2021

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Inflation is All Over the Place – James Mackintosh, The Wall Street Journal

September 20, 2021

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How Investors Can (and Can’t) Create Social Value – Paul Brest, Ronald Gilson, & Mark Wolfson, Stanford Social Innovation Review

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September 7, 2021

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How Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway took on America’s health care system and lost – Erika Fry, Fortune

August 26, 2021

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Animals Count and Use Zero. How Far Does Their Number Sense Go? – Jordana Cepelewicz, Wired

August 20, 2021

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When Will China Rule the World? Maybe Never – Eric Zhu and Tom Orlik, Bloomberg

July 8, 2021

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Unhedged: Talking bubbles with Jeremy Grantham – Robert Armstrong, Financial Times

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May 25, 2021

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Even Short-Term Inflation Will Test the Fed – James Mackintosh, WSJ

May 21, 2021

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Productivity Is Finally Looking Up, and the Gains Could Lift Growth

May 4, 2021

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U.S. Debt Is at a Record, but the Risk Calculus Is Changing – Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ

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April 20, 2021

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China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy – James T. Areddy, WSJ

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April 7, 2021

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One of World’s Greatest Hidden Fortunes is Wiped Out in Days – Katherine Burton and Tom Maloney, Bloomberg

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April 1, 2021

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NFTs Are Driving Stunts and Diving into the Culture Wars – Nick Bilton, Vanity Fair

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March 23, 2021

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We’re Worried About Bubbles. That’s a Good Thing – John Authers, Bloomberg

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March 3, 2021

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Race, Risk, and the Emergence of Federal Redlining – P. Fishback, J. LaVoice, A. Shertzer, R. Walsh, NBER Working Paper Series

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February 12, 2021

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Walmart Is Adopting Socially Responsible Policies. ESG Funds Are Taking Notice. – Sarah Max, Barron’s

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January 11, 2021

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Chinese Tech Stocks Are in Hot Water. It May Not Last. – Craig Mellow, Barron’s

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January 4, 2021

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Wall Street versus Main Street: Why the disconnect? By Marc Goedhart, Tim Koller, and Pete Stumpner – McKinsey & Company

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October 12, 2020

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Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing: Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of COVID-19

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September 14, 2020

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1Q 2020 GMO Quarterly Letter by Ben Inker and Jeremy Grantham

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June 16, 2020

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KKR Global Macro Trends | Keep Calm and Carry On | April 2020

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April 23, 2020

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IMF World Economic Outlook | Chapter 1: The Great Lockdown

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April 15, 2020

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The Private Equity Negotiation Myth – William Clayton, Yale Journal on Regulation

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April 2, 2020

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This classic McKinsey article from 2000 is something we are reviewing during this volatile time.

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March 23, 2020

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International Monetary Relations: Taking Finance Seriously – Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor

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November 25, 2019

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Affordable Housing in Los Angeles: Delivering More and Doing it Faster – McKinsey Global Institute – November 2019

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November 25, 2019

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Musings on Markets – Blog by Aswath Damodaran

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November 18, 2019

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The Future of Asia – McKinsey Global Institute – September 2019

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November 12, 2019

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The ‘Genetic Defect’ in Active Management, Institutional Investor, Julie Segal

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October 22, 2019

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8 Experts Every Family Office Should Have Now – Jackie Cooperman, Worth

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This Week in Muniland – Alliance Bernstein

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August 19, 2019

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Reconciling Fiduciary Duty and Social Conscience: The Law and Economics of ESG Investing by a Trustee

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July 8, 2019

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Did the 2017 Tax Reform Discriminate against Blue State Voters?

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June 24, 2019

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Is a leverage reckoning coming? McKinsey & Company May 2019

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May 15, 2019

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What’s Happening with the US-China Trade Negotiations

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Jim Foster | May 10, 2019

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Globalization in Transition — The Future of Trade and Value Chains, McKinsey & Company, January 2019

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March 11, 2019

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Forget the Trade War. China is Already in Crisis – Bloomberg

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The huge ‘blackout’ that may be deepening market turbulence – CNN Business

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Has the derivatives volcano already begun to erupt? – Asia Times

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Why the Traditional Way of Measuring ‘Value’ Stocks May Be History – WSJ

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Leveraged-Loan Lovefest Will End in Heartbreak