EPISODE · May 10, 2021 · 48 MIN
Episode 07/ Postscript/ Discussion & Analysis
Notes from Utopia:The Tropicalist discusses the history of public health in China and how it explains the effectiveness of the Chinese response to Covid 19Jesse and Madhavi discuss:quantitative easing and the continued misallocation of investmentthe Asian cultural preference for gold (and a possible Asianization of global investment preferences) some lessons from Abenomics for the rest of the worldLinks:Epidemics and society: from the Black Death to the present.How Will COVID-19 Change the World? Historian Frank Snowden on Epidemics From the Black Death to Now: Interview with Dr. Frank M. Snowden.COVID-19: Rethinking the lockdown groupthink.Did lockdowns work? An economist’s cross-country comparison.Effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions on Covid-19 transmission in 190 countries from 23 January to 13 April 2020.Correcting misperceptions about the Swedish strategy.Opinion: Undocumented Chinese workers in underground factories producing goods for luxury fashion houses in Italy could have spread the virus from China to Italy.Russians reject vaccines as Kremlin fears new Covid-19 wave.Glacial pace of vaccines threatens Japan’s Olympic moment.One vaccine dose can nearly halve transmission risk.The next global depression is coming and optimism won’t slow it down.The destructive force and failure of QE.Population trends in China and India: demographic dividend or demographic drag? The future of a demographic overachiever: long term implications of the demographic transition in China.Can China avoid a growth crisis?Triffin’s dilemma for global reserve currencies.Hugo Stinnes, the Weimar’s inflation king. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Notes from Utopia:The Tropicalist discusses the history of public health in China and how it explains the effectiveness of the Chinese response to Covid 19Jesse and Madhavi discuss:quantitative easing and the continued misallocation of investmentthe Asian cultural preference for gold (and a possible Asianization of global investment preferences) some lessons from Abenomics for the rest of the worldLinks:Epidemics and society: from the Black Death to the present.How Will COVID-19 Change the World? Historian Frank Snowden on Epidemics From the Black Death to Now: Interview with Dr. Frank M. Snowden.COVID-19: Rethinking the lockdown groupthink.Did lockdowns work? An economist’s cross-country comparison.Effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions on Covid-19 transmission in 190 countries from 23 January to 13 April 2020.Correcting misperceptions about the Swedish strategy.Opinion: Undocumented Chinese workers in underground factories producing goods for luxury fashion houses in Italy could have spread the virus from China to Italy.Russians reject vaccines as Kremlin fears new Covid-19 wave.Glacial pace of vaccines threatens Japan’s Olympic moment.One vaccine dose can nearly halve transmission risk.The next global depression is coming and optimism won’t slow it down.The destructive force and failure of QE.Population trends in China and India: demographic dividend or demographic drag? The future of a demographic overachiever: long term implications of the demographic transition in China.Can China avoid a growth crisis?Triffin’s dilemma for global reserve currencies.Hugo Stinnes, the Weimar’s inflation king. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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