Macroeconomics

• The ‘Representative Agent’ Is Always Rational. The Rest of Us Are Not. By Peter Coy, The New York Times, July 10, 2023
• New York Times on HANK, and questions By John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist (blog), July 11, 2023
  
•  Jón Steinsson interview: Forward guidance, the state of macro, and how the economy is like a rumbling volcano By Jeff Horwich, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, December 19, 2022
  
• A Strong Signal That Recession Is Looming By Peter Coy, The New York Times, December 21, 2022 [Inverted yield curve as a recession prediction]
  
• Why Even a 40% Tax Break Won’t Move Japan’s Employers to Raise Pay By Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno, The New York Times, Dec. 23, 2021
  
• The U.S. could be on the verge of a productivity boom, a game-changer for the economy By Heather Long, The Washington Post, August 18, 2021
  
• This Is a Terrible Time for Savers By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, August 9, 2021
  
•  The Puzzle of Low Interest Rates By N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, December 4, 2020
• Emi Nakamura interview: On price dynamics, monetary policy, and this “scary moment in history” By Douglas Clement, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, May 6, 2020
• Books and Lecture Notes
• Machine Learning for Quant Macro By Zhigang Feng
  
• Macroeconomics: A comprehensive textbook for first-year Ph.D. courses in macroeconomics. 
• Intermediate Macroeconomics By François Geerolf, UCLA - Econ 102 - Intermediate Macro
  
• Lecture Notes on Graduate Macroeconomics By Christopher Carroll, May 30, 2009
  
• Intermediate Macroeconomics By Pascal Michaillat
  
• Advanced Macroeconomics By Klaus Prettner, YouTube
• Introduction to Advanced Macroeconomics By Michael Burda, Humboldt University, Berlin, YouTube
  

Regulation

• To Cut Cancer Risks, E.P.A. Limits Pollution From Chemical Plants By Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, April 9, 2024
  
• All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles All-In Podcast, YouTube Channel, September 15, 2023
  
• Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run on Deposits By Emily Flitter and Rob Copeland, The New York Times, March 10, 2023
  
•  Confronting Uncertainty in Climate Policy By Lars Peter Hansen, Chicago Booth Review, July 26, 2022
  
• Business Strategies and Competition Policy By Jason Furman, Twitter, May 16, 2022
  
• Why Internet Access Is Slow And Costly In The U.S. CNBC YouTube Channel, October 6, 2021
  
• Once Tech’s Favorite Economist, Now a Thorn in Its Side By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, May 20, 2021
  
• Why the Markets Need a Strong Government Hand By Robert H. Frank, The New York Times, April 2, 2021
  
• Et Tu, Ted? Why Deregulation Failed By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, February 22, 2021
  
• The Economic Case for Regulating Social Media By Robert H. Frank, The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2021
  
• E.U. fines drug makers for keeping cheap medicine off market By Associated Press, November 26, 2020
• Antitrust
• Is Apple an Illegal Monopoly? Antitrust Lawyer Breaks Down U.S. v. Apple The Wall Street Journal, YouTube, April 18, 2024
  
• The Chicken Tycoons vs. the Antitrust Hawks By H. Claire Brown, The New York Times Magazine, December 1, 2023
•  The Return of the Trustbusters By Jacob M. Schlesinger, The Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2021
  
• Break Up Big Chicken By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, August 17, 2021
  
• Antitrust in a Changing Economy and Changing Economics By Jason Furman, ProMarket (blog), November 30, 2018
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Taxes

• Surprise! The federal government made a website that doesn’t stink. By Shira Ovide, The Washington Post, March 29, 2024
  
• The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn’t its new website use it? By Julie Zauzmer Weil, The Washington Post, February 4, 2024
  
• How inheritance data secretly explains U.S. inequality By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, November 10, 2023
  
• Debunking 5 Republican arguments against the global minimum tax  By Natasha Sarin and  Kimberly Clausing, The Washington Post, August 7, 2023
  
• Top Federal Individual Income Tax Rate 1913-2023 Tax Policy Center, July 31, 2023
  
• Biden won a global tax rate. Now Americans wonder if it was a good deal. By Julie Zauzmer Weil, The Washington Post, July 5, 2023
  
• Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States by Stefanie Stantcheva, Twitter thread, June 30, 2023
  
• Lobbyists Begin Chipping Away at Biden’s $80 Billion I.R.S. Overhaul By Alan Rappeport, The New York Times, March 30, 2023
  
•  'Why we need a wealth tax' By Martin Sandbu, Financial Times, YouTube, September 6, 2022
  
• Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program. By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, July 19, 2021
  
• Opinion: Americans spend hours and hours preparing their taxes. We shouldn’t have to. by Helaine Olen, The Washington Post, May 15, 2021
  
•  Translating Tax Jargon Ahead of Tax Day: An Illustrated Guide to Common Terms By Randy Yeip, James Benedict, and Andrew Levinson, The Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2021
  
• Column: 23,000 households reported income over $10 million last year. The IRS audited seven By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2020
  
• Say Yes to Progressive Taxation By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, October 28, 2020
• Companies Save Billions in Taxes by Shifting Assets Around Globe By Richard Rubin, The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2020
  

Common Resources

• The Paradox Holding Back the Clean Energy Revolution By Ed Conway, The New York Times, February 22, 2024
  
• Strawberry Case Study: What If Farmers Had to Pay for Water? By Coral Davenport, The New York Times, December 28, 2023 ["With aquifers nationwide in dangerous decline, one part of California has tried essentially taxing groundwater. New research shows it’s working."]
  
• The Struggle to Conserve Threatened Forests in Haiti By Ekpali Saint, Earth.org, Dec 30, 2022 [Has a stunning picture of the Haiti-Dominican Republic border.]
  
• As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change By Christopher Flavelle and Mira Rojanasakul, The New York Times, November 24, 2023
  
• In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air By Brad Plumer, The New York Times, November 9, 2023 [Government subsides and carbon credits at work.]
  
• When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics By Christopher Ketcham, The Intercept, October 29, 2023
  
• Whales, From Above By Ellie Duke with Photographs and Video by Sutton Lynch, The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2023 [The photographer Sutton Lynch is documenting a dramatic turning point off the coast of Long Island — a resurgence of sea life after decades of depletion.]
  
• Air Quality Life Index 
• America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow  By Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray, The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2023 [Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a New York Times data investigation revealed.]
• Five Takeaways From Our Investigation Into America’s Groundwater Crisis By Mira Rojanasakul and Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times, Aug. 29, 2023
• Uncharted Waters By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, Aug. 29, 2023 [The threat to groundwater is a classic tragedy of the commons.]
• The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions By Kasha Patel, The Washington Post, August 17, 2023
  
• A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization By Alissa J. Rubin with photographs by Bryan Denton, The New York Times, July 29, 2023
  
• Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable. It Just Got Worse. By Christopher Flavelle, Jill Cowan and Ivan Penn, The New York Times, May 31, 2023
  
• Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows By Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian, January 18, 2023
  
• Once an Open Sewer, New York Harbor Now Teems With Life. Thank the Clean Water Act. By John Waldman, December 30, 2022
  
• The gold-mining city that is destroying a sacred Venezuelan mountain By Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero and Janice Kai Chen, TheWashington Post, December 6, 2022
  
• Herman Daly, professor who introduced ecology to economics, dies at 84 By Emily Langer, The Washington Post, November 4, 2022
  
• The Amazon, undone: A failure of enforcement  By Story by Terrence McCoy and Photos by Rafael Vilela, The Washington Post, Aug. 30, 2022
  
• Carbon Offsets By John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, YouTube, August 22, 2022
  
• This Pioneering Economist Says Our Obsession With Growth Must End By David Marchese, The New York Times, July 17, 2022
  
• How Demand for Twigs Is Bringing Down a Rainforest  By Dionne Searcey and Ashley Gilbertson, The New York Times, July 14, 2022
•  Raft by Raft, a Rainforest Loses Its Trees By Dionne Searcey and Ashley Gilbertson, The New York Times, June 14, 2022
  
• Devouring the rainforest By Terrence McCoy and Julia Ledur, The Washington Post, April 29, 2022
  
• How do carbon markets work? The Economist YouTube Channel, October 1, 2021
  
• China Opened a National Carbon Market. Here’s Why It Matters. By Chris Buckley, The New York Times, July 16, 2021
  
• New Carbon Market Pays Southern Pine-Growers Not to Cut By Ryan Dezember, The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2021
  
• ‘There’s a red flag here’: how an ethanol plant is dangerously polluting a US village By Carey Gillam, The Guardian, 10 Jan 2021
  
•  ‘The Fish Rots From the Head’: How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests By Anton Troianovski with Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 2020
  

Finance

• Wall St. Loves to Guess, but Nobody Knows What the Market Will Do in 2024 By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, December 23, 2023 ["So-called stock forecasts don’t deserve the name, our columnist says. Wall Street’s track record is horrendous."] 
• How Much Do I Really Need to Retire? By Tanza Loudenback, Buy Side from WSJ, December 21, 2023
  
• How Does the World’s Largest Hedge Fund Really Make Its Money? By Rob Copeland, The New York Times, November 1, 2023
  
• A ‘Shadow’ Lending Market in the U.S., Funded by Insurance Premiums By Maureen Farrell, The New York Times, October 4, 2023
  
• Harry Markowitz (1927-2023): Bringing Finance Into Economics By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, June 26, 2023
  
• Harry Markowitz, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Modern Portfolio Theory, Dies at 95 By Robert D. Hershey Jr., The New York Times, June 25, 2023
  
• Course Materials: empirical asset pricing By Ralph Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, 2021
  
• How Much Should I Have in Savings? By Steve Garmhausen, The Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2023
  
• Risky Bet on Crypto and a Run on Deposits Tank Signature Bank By Matthew Goldstein and Emily Flitter, The New York Times, March 12, 2023 [Regulators said keeping open the 24-year-old institution, which held deposits from law firms and real estate companies, could threaten the financial system’s stability.]
  
• The Perfect Retirement Investment Nobody Wants By Peter Coy, The New York Times, February 17, 2023
  
• For More Certainty in Your Retirement Portfolio, Consider Annuities By Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, February 7, 2023
  
• The Crypto Collapse and the End of the Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism By Mihir A. Desai, The New York Times, January 16, 2023
  
• Inflation bonds are earning eye-popping rates: 9.62 percent. By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, May 4, 2022
  
• Alex Tabarrok on DEFI Decentralized Finance - Crypto and Blockchain Macmillan Learning, YouTube, February 23, 2022
  
• Nobel-winning stock market theory used to help save coral reefs By Karen McVeigh, The Guardian, 28 Nov 2021
  
• Inflation Bonds Are Getting a Big Rate Bump By Ann Carrns, The Nw York Times, Nov. 4, 2021
  
• How IRAs Work And Why They Are More Popular Than 401(k)s CNBC YouTube Channel, August 12, 2021
  
• Only 35% Pass Wall St.’s Toughest Test. How Much Does That Matter? By Lananh Nguyen, The New York Times, September 30, 2021 
• Stock, Bond and Real Estate Prices Are All Uncomfortably High By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, October 1, 2021
  
• Is a home warranty a waste or a smart buy? By Anthony Giorgianni and Kevin Brasler, The Washington Post, September 21, 2021
  
• How to Enjoy Retirement Without Going Broke By Peter Coy, The New  York Times, August 27, 2021
  
• The Safe, High-Return Trade Hiding in Plain Sight By Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2021
  
• How 401(k) Plans Work And Why They Killed Pensions CNBC YouTube Channel, March 24, 2021
  
• What happened with GameStop? By Alexis Goldstein, Markets Weekly, 28 Jan 2021
  
• We Buy A Junk Bond Planet Money (podcast), September 9, 2020
• The Murderer, The Boy King, And The Invention Of Modern Finance Planet Money (podcast), September 4, 2020
• Mutual Fund Winners Don’t Stay Ahead for Long By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, July 31, 2020
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Myron S. Scholes by Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, December 28, 2018
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Jeremy Siegel by Andrew Lo and Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, November 2, 2018
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Robert C. Merton by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, June 15, 2017
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Robert J. Shiller by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, June 9, 2017
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Harry M. Markowitz by Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, May 23, 2017
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Eugene F. Fama by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, December 15, 2016
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Porfolio: William F. Sharpe by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, May 26, 2016 
• The Secret History of the Credit Card Frontline PBS YouTube Channel, November 23, 2004
  

Education

• Ignore the sticker price: How have college prices really changed? By Phillip Levine, Brookings, April 12, 2024
  
• That Giant College ‘Sticker’ Price Isn’t What Most Students Pay By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, April 12, 2024
  
• Why Is Paying for College So Complicated? By Ron Lieber, The New York Times, January 18, 2024
  
• How Do I Pay For College? Your questions, answered by experts. By The New York Times, January 12, 2024
  
• New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, October 23, 2023 
• Homeschooling Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), YouTube, October 4, 2023
  
• What Most American Schools Do Wrong By Adam Grant, The New York Times, October 22, 2023
  
• Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That? By Paul Tough, The New York Times Magazine, September 5, 2023
  
• When Financial Independence Isn’t Always the Goal By Sara Murphy, The New York Times, September 2, 2023 [Many Iranian Americans say their families place a high premium on education — sometimes at the expense of early financial independence — potentially complicating their financial futures.]
• Opinion Why colleges hide the truth about tuition (it isn’t as high as advertised) By George F. Will, The Washington Post, August 30, 2023 
• The Truth about College Costs By Dan Currell, National Affairs, Number 56, Summer 2023
  
• Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter By Ben Wildavsky, The New York Times, August 21, 2023
  
• Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification By Aatish Bhatiya, Claire Cain Miller, and Josh Katz, The New York Times, July 24, 2023
• American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate The Economist, July 23, 2023
  
• Trump’s Justices Didn’t Doom Affirmative Action. Demography Did. By Christopher Caldwell, The New York Times, June 8, 2023
  
• College is remade as tech majors surge and humanities dwindle By Nick Anderson, The Washington Post, May 20, 2023
  
• You Learn the Value of a College Degree When You Live Without One By Christopher Zara, The New York Times, April 26, 2023
  
• Opinion Bottom line, a college degree is worth the cost and then some By Christopher L. Eisgruber, The Washington Post, April 26, 2023
  
• The College Data You Probably Can’t Find, but Definitely Need By Ron Lieber, The New York Times, April 15, 2023
  
• Affirmative action in college admissions doesn’t work — but it could By Roland G. Fryer, Jr., The Washington Post, October 30, 2022
  
•  Stanford Law Introduces Income-Share Agreements By Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed, September 19, 2022
  
• Princeton to cover all college bills for families making up to $100,000 By Nick Anderson, The Washington Post, September 8, 2022
  
• The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors by Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, September 2, 2022 
  
• What Is School For? The New York Times, September 1, 2022 [Collection of opinion articles]
  
• Want to fix the federal student loan system? Kick out scammy schools. By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, August 29, 2022
  
• Why I Changed My Mind on Student Debt Forgiveness By Susan Dynarski, The New York Times, August 30, 2022
  
• Why Student Debt Relief Isn’t Elitist By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, August 29, 2022
  
• Biden’s Student Loan Plan Sets Off Fierce Debate Among Economists By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Aug. 30, 2022
  
•  Student debt: Is a degree worth the financial strain? By David Pogue, CBS Sunday Morning, YouTube, May 15, 2022
  
• I Am Not Proof of the American Dream By Tara Westover, The New York Times, February 2, 2022 
• “Educated” Author: College Is Unaffordable and Unimaginable Amanpour and Company, YouTube, February 9, 2022
  
• Drop in college enrollment threatens to cause long-term economic, social consequences By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, January 22, 2022
  
• More Women Than Men Are Going to College. That May Change the Economy. By Justin Wolfers, The New York Times, November 23, 2021
  
• The Fight Over Tenure Is Not Really About Tenure By Molly Worthen, The New York Times, September 20, 2021
  
•  Should More Student Loan Borrowers Use Income-Driven Repayment Plans? by Sarah Gunn, Nicholas Haltom and Urvi Neelakantan, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Brief, June 2021, No. 21-20
  
• More colleges and universities outsource services to for-profit companies By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2021
  
• More info is available about which college majors pay off, but students aren’t using it By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, Dec. 25, 2020
  
• More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, November 20, 2020 
• College Choices and Success: Four Questions for an Economist By Kristie Engemann, Open Vault Blog, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, November 18, 2020
  
• For Millions Deep in Student Loan Debt, Bankruptcy Is No Easy Fix By Ron Lieber and Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2020
  
• The Only Way to Save Higher Education Is to Make It Free By Claire Bond Potter, The New York Times, June 5, 2020
• Don’t Kid Yourself: Online Lectures Are Here to Stay By Robert H. Frank, The New York Times, June 5, 2020
• The End of College as We Knew It? By Frank Bruni, The New York Times, June 4, 2020
• Risky Strategy by Many Private Colleges Leaves Them Exposed By Kevin Carey, The New York Times, May 28, 2020
  
• Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming  By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, May 26, 2020
• Income Share Agreements Looking Up  by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), May 22, 2020
• Joshua Angrist: On charter schools, the elite illusion, and the "Stones Age" of econometrics Interview by David A. Price, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Econ Focus, First Quarter 2020
• Is Going to College Worth it?: VICE Podcast 031 Vice, YouTube, February 5, 2014
  

Public Goods

• The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. By David Streitfeld, The New York Times, August 13, 2023
  
• Putting a Dollar Value on Life? Governments Already Do  By Austin Frakt, The New York Times, May 11, 2020
• How Government Agencies Determine The Dollar Value Of Human Life (audio report) By Sarah Gonzalez, NPR, April 23, 2020

Globalization

• Buy American? Easier Said Than Done. By Jenna Sauers, The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2024 [Review of “Making It in America,” by Rachel Slade.]
  
• Biden’s course for U.S. on trade breaks with Clinton and Obama By David J. Lynch, The Washington Post, August 27, 2023
  
• Why It Seems Everything We Knew About the Global Economy Is No Longer True By Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, June 18, 2023
  
• Opinion What women’s underwear tells us about our trade system By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, February 9, 2023
  
• Will remote work make it easier to ship white-collar jobs overseas? By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, August 26, 2022
  
• ‘What have we done?’: six years on, UK counts the cost of Brexit By Toby Helm, Robin McKie, James Tapper & Phillip Inman, The Observer, Sat 25 Jun 2022
  
• Economic Weapons of Mass Destruction By Raghuram G. Rajan, Project Syndicate, Mar 17, 2022 [On economic sanctions]
  
• Tweet by Douglas A. Irwin, Twitter, December 23, 2021
  
• The Persistence of the China Shock By David Autor, Ratioforskning YouTube Channel, November 3, 2021
  
• U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods didn’t bring companies back to the U.S., new research finds
  
  By Jiakun Jack Zhang and Samantha A. Vortherms, The Washington Post, September 22, 2021
  
• The British retailer Marks & Spencer blames Brexit as it closes French stores. By Eshe Nelson, The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2021 [Nice illustration of border effects.] 
• An anniversary for free traders The Economist, June 24, 2021
• Scottish fish prices ‘collapsing’ by as much as 80% due to Brexit bureaucracy, industry warns By Ben Chapman, The Independent, January 12, 2021
  
• U.S. trade policies have disproportionately harmed Black and Latino workers, not just the White working class Trump courted, researchers find By Tracy Jan, The Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2021
  
• The W.T.O. Is Having a Midlife Crisis By Farah Stockman, The New York Times, December 17, 2020
  
• The economic consequences of Sir Robert Peel: A quantitative assessment of the repeal of the Corn Laws By Douglas Irwin and Maksym Chepeliev, VoxEU, 09 December 2020 
  
• W.T.O. Says American Tariffs on China Broke Global Trade Rules By Ana Swanson, The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2020
  
• When Globalization Really Began By Christiane Bird, The New York Times, April 14, 2020 [Review of "THE YEAR 1000: When Explorers Connected the World — and Globalization Began" By Valerie Hansen]
• Data
• New Measures of Prices for Global Trade Commissioner's Corner (blog), Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 15, 2018. Data: https://www.bls.gov/mxp/home.htm
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Technology and R&D

• Everybody Is Talking About A.I. What the Heck Is It, Anyway? By Stephen Marche, The New York Times, January 31, 2024 ["Five best books about artificial intelligence."]
  
• The Billionaires Spending a Fortune to Lure Scientists Away From Universities By Rob Copeland, January 12, 2024
  
• Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon By Timothy B. Lee and San Trott, Understanding A.I. (blog), July 27, 2023
  
• Big Tech Is Bad. Big A.I. Will Be Worse. By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, The New York Times, June 9, 2023
  
• How Much Regulation is Too Much? MIT IDE, April 12, 2023 [New research measures how French government regulation stymies innovation among smaller firms]
  
• What’s the Future for A.I.? By Cade Metz, The New York Times, March 31, 2023 [Where we’re heading tomorrow, next year and beyond.]
• How Should I Use A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT?  By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 30, 2023 [Large language models are already good at a wide variety of tasks.]
• What Makes A.I. Chatbots Go Wrong? By Cade Metz, The New York Times, March 29, 2023 [The curious case of the hallucinating software.]
• How Does ChatGPT Really Work? By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 28, 2023 [Learning how a “large language model” operates.]
• How to Become an Expert on A.I. By Kevin Roose and Cade Metz, The New York Times, April 4, 2023. [Part 1 of a five-part series on A.I.]
  
• How could AI impact developing economies? By Daniel Björkegren, March 27, 2023
• ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like. By David Rotman, MIT Technology Review, March 25, 2023
  
• What Occupations Will ChatGPT Most Likely Impact? TAP, March 24, 2023
  
• The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes By Steven Johnson, The New York Times Magazine, March 17, 2023
  
• Fox News hosts, execs privately doubted 2020 conspiracy claims shared on air By Jeremy Barr and Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post, February 17, 2023
  
• ‘I want to destroy whatever I want’: Bing’s AI chatbot unsettles US reporter By Jonathan Yerushalmy, The Guardian, February 17, 2023
• A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, February 16, 2023
  
• How Smart Are the Robots Getting? By Cade Metz, The New York Times, January 20, 2023
  
• The Long Road to Driverless Trucks By Cade Metz, The New York Times, October 14, 2022
  
• A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? By Steven Johnson, The New York Times Magazine, April 16, 2022
  
• Bill Gates: How to Develop Life-Saving Drugs Much Faster By Bill Gates, The New York Times, April 15, 2022
• Save America’s Patent System By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, April 16, 2022
  
• The Latecomer's Guide to Crypto By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 19, 2022
  
• Economists Pin More Blame on Tech for Rising Inequality By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, January 12, 2022
  
• Juul Wanted to Disrupt Big Tobacco. Instead It Created an Epidemic of Addiction. By Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New York Times, May 25, 2021. [Review of "THE DEVIL’S PLAYBOOK: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation" By Lauren Etter]
  
• Debts, Deficits, and Patent Monopolies By Dean Baker, CEPR Blog, May 27, 2021
  
• The Robots Are Coming for Phil in Accounting By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 6, 2021
  
• The Ingredients For Innovation Farnam Street (blog), August 2020
  
• An exploration of ‘How Innovation Works’ By Jon Gertner, The Washington Post, June 18, 2020 [Review of “How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom” by Matt Ridley.]
  
• The Difference Between Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents By Alexander Webb, The New York Times, April 16, 2020

Monetary Economics

• Taylor Rule Remains Central to Interest Rate Discussions By David Plendered, Economy Matters (blog, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), August 3, 2023
  
• What banks do with your money By Abha Bhattarai, Talia Trackim and Martin Tognola, The Washington Post, July 6, 2023
  
• This country is ditching its currency for US Dollar. Here's why. By Uptin, YouTube, June 3, 2023
  
• The Country Behind the $100,000,000,000,000 Bill Hits a New Stage of Dysfunction By Gabriele Steinhauser and Bernard Mpofu, The Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2023
  
• Banks Are Borrowing More From the Fed: What to Know By Jeanna Smialek and Joe Rennison, The New York Times, March 24, 2023
  
• How the Fed Opened Pandora’s Box By Jeanna Smialek, The New York Times, February 25, 2023
  
• AP Macro gets a makeover By Darian Woods and Adrian Ma, The Indicator from Planet Money, NPR, August 15, 2022
  
• Inflation shows both the value and limits of monetary-policy rules The Economist, July 14, 2022
  
• Inflation Isn’t Going to Bring Back the 1970s By Ben Bernanke, The New York Times, June 14, 2022
  
• Wonking Out: Why Monetary Policy Has Gotten So Hard By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 10, 2022
  
•  March 2020: How the Fed Averted Economic Disaster By Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal, February 18, 2022
  
• Libor, Long the Most Important Number in Finance, Dies at 52 By Lananh Nguyen and Jeanna Smialek, The New York Times, Jan. 12, 2022
  
• How Softies Seized the Fed By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 23, 2021
  
• Teaching the New Tools of Monetary Policy Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  
• Teaching the Linkage Between Banks and the Fed: R.I.P. Money Multiplier by Jane Ihrig, Gretchen C. Weinbach, and Scott A. Wolla, Page One Economics, September 2021
• Krugman Wonks Out: What We Talk About When We Talk About Money By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 21, 2021
  
•  Japan’s Stock-Playing Central Bank Racks Up $56 Billion Gain  By Megumi Fujikawa, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 26, 2020
  
• For Fed’s Disaster Junkie, Pandemic Was One of 99 Bad Scenarios By Craig Torres, Bloomberg Businessweek, September 23, 2020
  
• In unusual deal, U.S. Treasury to acquire 30 percent of trucking company in exchange for $700 million loan By Jeff Stein and Aaron Gregg, The Washington Post, July 1, 2020
  
• Stock market recovers after Fed announces it will buy corporate bonds By Hannah Denham, The Washington Post, June 15, 2020
  
• Bank of England to directly finance UK government’s extra spending By Chris Giles and Philip Georgiadis, Financial Times, April 9 2020
• When central banks take over securities markets  By Izabella Kaminska, Alphaville (blog), Financial Times, March 26 2020
• How the Fed’s Magic Money Machine Will Turn $454 Billion Into $4 Trillion By Jeanna Smialek, The New York Times, March 26, 2020
• Video:
• How does raising interest rates control inflation? The Economist, YouTube, June 9, 2022 
• The Money Multiplier Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, July 25, 2017
• What Is Money? Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, July 18, 2017
• Crypto and Digital Currencies
• Cryptocurrencies II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) LastWeekTonight, YouTube, April 24, 2023
• Why Stablecoins Fail: An Economist’s Post-Mortem on Terra By Russell Wong, Economic Brief, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, July 2022, No. 22-24
  
•  Crypto currencies and digital money: Taking stock By Jean-Pierre Landau, Vox EU, June 27, 2022
  
• Fintech IMF eLibrary
  
• Platforms, Tokens, DeFi and Smart CBDC By Jonathan Payne, Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance, YouTube, June 9, 2022
  
• Cryptoeconomics By Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok [Textbook Chapter]
  
• CBDCs in emerging market economies BIS Papers, April 14, 2022
  
•  Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation by Federal Reserve Board, January 20, 2022
  
•  The Future of Payments: Cryptocurrencies, Stablecoins or Central Bank Digital Currencies? By Tony Richards, Reserve Bank of Australia, November 18, 2021 
• Could digital currencies put banks out of business? The Economist YouTube Channel, May 8, 2021
  
• China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy By James T. Areddy, The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2021
  
• Why China's New Digital Currency Raises Privacy Concerns Wall Street Journal, YouTube Channel, March 17, 2021
  
• Why Central Banks Want To Get Into Digital Currencies CNBC YouTube Channel, March 5, 2021 
• The Future of Currency By Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business, YouTube, October 26, 2018
• The Economics of Bitcoin & Virtual Currency By Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business, YouTube, June 18, 2015
  

Coronavirus Pandemic

• How good is the U.S. economy? It’s beating pre-pandemic predictions. By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, December 8, 2023
  
• The Big Fail by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), November 28, 2023 [Review of post mortems of US response.]
  
• Where did the covid aid money go? The Washington Post, December 3, 2022
  
• Millions in covid aid went to retrain veterans. Only 397 landed jobs. By Lisa Rein and Yeganeh Torbati, The Washington Post, August 25, 2022
  
• How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed a Million Americans By Damien Cave, The New York Times, May 16, 2022
  
• How misinformation and the partisan divide drove a surge in U.S. COVID deaths PBS Newshour, YouTube, May 11, 2022
  
• Death Toll During Pandemic Far Exceeds Totals Reported by Countries, W.H.O. Says By Benjamin Mueller and Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times, May 6, 2022
  
• Global excess deaths associated with COVID-19, January 2020 - December 2021 World Health Organization, May 2022
  
• New Rule: American Kleptocracy Real Time with Bill Maher, YouTube, April 29, 2022
  
• Where $5 Trillion in Pandemic Stimulus Money Went By Alicia Parlapiano, Deborah B. Solomon, Madeleine Ngo and Stacy Cowley, The New York Times, March 11, 2022
  
•  Robust COVID Relief Achieved Historic Gains Against Poverty and Hardship, Bolstered Economy By Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 24, 2022
  
• Two years into the pandemic, America has become the land of the bulging bank accounts By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, February 23, 2022
  
• Most Americans have come out ahead economically in the pandemic, despite inflation By John Harwood, CNN, February 13, 2022
  
• U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries By Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz, The New York Times, Feb. 1, 2022
  
• Halting Progress and Happy Accidents: How mRNA Vaccines Were Made By Gina Kolata and Benjamin Mueller, The New York Times, Jan. 15, 2022
  
• Wonking Out: France’s Economy Is Having a Good Pandemic by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 14, 2022
  
• What we learned during the pandemic about the effectiveness of cash assistance By Kim R. Ford, The Washington Post, December 22, 2021
  
• Remote Work Is Failing Young Employees By Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel, The New York Times, November 22, 2021
  
• An Unsolved Mystery: Why Do More Men Die of Covid-19? By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The New York Times, November 2, 2021 
• Serendipity and foresight prepared the world to fight the coronavirus By Carolyn Johnson, The Washington Post, October 1, 2021 [When the coronavirus pandemic hit last year, Barney Graham’s team at the National Institutes of Health raced to develop a vaccine.]
• A scientific hunch. Then silence. Until the world needed a lifesaving vaccine. By Carolyn Johnson, The Washington Post, October 1, 2021 [On the contributions of Dr. Drew Weissman]
• A one-way ticket. A cash-stuffed teddy bear. A dream decades in the making. By Carolyn Johnson, The Washington Post, October 1, 2021 [On the contributions of Dr. Katalin Kariko]
• ‘Uncontrolled Spread’ Review: Tested and Found Wanting By Alex Tabarrok, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 14, 2021 [Review of ‘Uncontrolled Spread’ by Scott Gottlieb.]
  
• Pandemic Aid Programs Spur a Record Drop in Poverty By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, July 28, 2021
  
• Officially, the pandemic recession lasted only two months. By Ben Casselman, The New York Times, July 19, 2021
  
• Opinion: Vermont’s and South Dakota’s covid infection rates are remarkably similar — but their outcomes are not By Ashish K. Jha, The Washinton Post, July 13, 2021
  
• Monthly Payments to Families With Children to Begin By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, July 12, 2021
  
• How a Hobbled Main Street Survived the Pandemic ‘Asteroid’ By Jonno Rattman, Michael Corkery, Alana Celii and Gabriel Gianordoli, The New York Times, June 1, 2021
  
• Covid Proved the C.D.C. Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed? By Jeneen Interlandi and Brian Rea, The New York Times Magazine, June 20, 2021
  
• Welcome to the 'Take This Job and Shove It' Economy The Ezra Klein Show (podcast), The New York Tims, June 18, 2021 [Interview of Betsey Stevenson]
  
• How the US won the economic recovery By Dylan Matthews, Vox, April 30, 2021
  
• As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted By Jeffrey Gettleman, Sameer Yasir, Hari Kumar and Suhasini Raj. Photographs by Atul Loke. The New York Times, April 24, 2021
  
• World Happiness Report is out, with a surprising picture of global resilience By Ryan Bacic, The Washington Post, March 23, 2021
• World Happiness Report 2021  Citation: Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, eds. 2021. World Happiness Report 2021. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
• Covid? What Covid? Taiwan Thrives as a Bubble of Normality. By Amy Qin and Amy Chang Chien, The New York Times, March 13, 2021
  
• To Juice the Economy, Biden Bets on the Poor By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, March 6, 2021
  
• How Economist Emily Oster Ended Up at the Center of the Fight Over Schools Reopening By Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, March 4, 2021
  
• Mexico is vaccinating its poorest citizens first — against the advice of health experts By Kevin Sieff and Paulina Villegas, The Washington Post, Feb. 26, 2021
  
• Who Spent Their Last Stimulus Checks? By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Michael Stepner, The New York Times, Feb. 8, 2021
  
• Power, Patriotism and 1.4 Billion People: How China Beat the Virus and Roared Back By Steven Lee Myers, Keith Bradsher, Sui-Lee Wee and Chris Buckley, The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2021
  
• Good Vaccine News By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, February 1, 2021
  
• India: has the Covid pandemic started to burn itself out? By Amy Kazmin, The Financial Times, January 30, 2021
  
• From Michael Lewis, a ‘Superhero Story’ About the Pandemic By Alexandra Alter, The New York Times, Jan. 28, 2021
  
• Shutdowns by Democratic governors did not cause the pandemic jobs crisis By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, Jan. 25, 2021
  
• One Year, 400,000 Coronavirus Deaths: How the U.S. Guaranteed Its Own Failure By Sarah Mervosh, Mike Baker, Patricia Mazzei and Mark Walker, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2021
  
• How Singapore Has Kept the Coronavirus Off Campus By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2021
  
• Trump’s Focus as the Pandemic Raged: What Would It Mean for Him? By Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman, Noah Weiland, Sharon LaFraniere and Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times, Dec. 31, 2020
  
• Covid-19 Was Consuming India, Until Nearly Everyone Started Wearing Masks By Eric Bellman, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 30, 2020
  
• Stimulus Money Should Have Gone to the Jobless, Economists Say By Nelson D. Schwartz and Gillian Friedman, The New York Times, Dec. 30, 2020
  
• Employment recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic By  Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Peter B. Meyer, Joseph Piacentini, Michael Schultz, and Leo Sveikauskas, Monthly Labor Review, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 2020, https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2020.27. 
  
• The U.S. was supposed to be equipped to handle a pandemic. So what went wrong? By The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, December 26, 2020
  
• The CDC’s failed race against covid-19: A threat underestimated and a test overcomplicated By David Willman, The Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2020
  
• The Ghost of Sabotage Future By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 21, 2020
  
• Congress Passes Huge Coronavirus Relief Bill By Emily Cochrane, The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2020
  
• Time for a Second Round of PPP By Michael Faulkender and Stephen Miran, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 17, 2020
• The Job-Preservation Effects of Paycheck Protection Program Loans By Michael Faulkender, Robert Jackman, and Stephen I. Miran, Office of Economic Policy, Working Paper 2020-01, December 2020
  
• Getting Everyone Vaccinated, With ‘Nudges’ and Charity Auctions By Richard H. Thaler, The New York Times, December 9, 2020
  
• The Pandemic Is Showing Us How Capitalism Is Amazing, and Inadequate By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, November 14, 2020.
  
• With Covid-19 Under Control, China’s Economy Surges Ahead By Keith Bradsher, The New York Times, Oct. 19, 2020
  
• The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord by Matthew Desmond, The New York Times Magazine,  October 14, 2020
  
• The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger By Peter S. Goodman, Abdi Latif Dahir and Karan Deep Singh, The New York Times, Sept. 11, 2020
  
• How Hunger Persists in a Rich Country Like America By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, The New York Times Magazine, Sept. 2, 2020
  
• First Famines of Coronavirus Era Are at World’s Doorstep, U.N. Warns By Rick Gladstone, The New York Times, Sept. 5, 2020
  
• The Senate Is on Vacation While Americans Starve By Janet Yellen and Jared Bernstein, The New York Times, Aug. 24, 2020
  
• $300 Unemployment Benefit: Who Will Get It and When? By Patricia Cohen and Tiffany Hsu, The New York Times, Aug. 23, 2020
  
• In China, Where the Pandemic Began, Life Is Starting to Look … Normal By Javier C. Hernández, The New York Times, Published Aug. 23, 2020
  
• Virus Alters Where People Open Their Wallets, Hinting at a Halting Recovery By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Ella Koeze and Sapna Maheshwari, The New York Times, Aug. 19, 2020
• Manhattan Vacancy Rate Climbs, and Rents Drop 10% By Matthew Haag, The New York Times, Aug. 18, 2020
  
• A global debt crisis is looming – how can we prevent it? By Joseph Stiglitz and Hamid Rashid, The Guardian, August 3, 2020
  
• Amid a Deadly Virus and Crippled Economy, One Form of Aid Has Proved Reliable: Food Stamps By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, July 19, 2020
  
• Covid 19, globotics, and development By  Richard Baldwin and Rikard Forslid, VoxEU, 16 July 2020
• As the Trump disaster gets worse, a new political theory helps explain it by Greg Sargent, The Washington Post, July 15, 2020
  
• Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages? By Veronica Guerrieri, Guido Lorenzoni, Ludwig Straub, Iván Werning, NBER Working Paper No. 26918, April 2020
• Veronica Guerrieri on COVID-19: Can Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages? Princeton Economics (YouTube channel), June 19, 2020
• Viral recessions: Lack of demand during the coronavirus crisis By Veronica Guerrieri, Guido Lorenzoni, Ludwig Straub, Iván Werning, voxeu.org, 06 May 2020
  
• How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data By Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Michael Stepner, The Opportunity Insights Team (Working Paper), May 2020
• Raj Chetty on the economic impacts of COVID-19: Real-time evidence from private sector data Princeton Economics (YouTube channel), June 17, 2020
  
• A new paper finds stimulus checks, small business aid, and “reopening” can’t rescue the economy By Dylan Matthews, vox.com, Jun 17, 2020
• The Rich Cut Their Spending. That Has Hurt All the Workers Who Count on It. By Emily Badger and Alicia Parlapiano, The New York Times, June 17, 2020
  
• What a successful economic recovery plan must look like By Jason Furman, Timothy Geithner, Glenn Hubbard and Melissa S. Kearney, The Washington Post, June 16, 2020
  
• After the Pandemic, a Global Hunger Crisis By Arif Husain, The New York Times, June 12, 2020
  
• New Rules of Retirement By Washington Post Staff, The Washington Post, May 15, 2020
  
• What happens if you get coronavirus at work? Experts say it might be hard to prove. By Lateshia Beachum, The Washington Post, May 29, 2020
  
• On the Economics of Not Dying  By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 28, 2020
• Coronavirus: Spain set for basic income to ease crisis pain  BBC, May 18, 2020
•  America risks doing too little, not too much, to save the economy  By Emily Stewart, vox.com, May 15, 2020
• Sweden Stayed Open. A Deadly Month Shows the Risks.  By Lauren Leatherby and Allison McCann, The New York Times, May 15, 2020
• I Live in Sweden. I’m Not Panicking.  By Maud Cordenius, The New York Times, May 15, 2020
• Reopening the Economy Would Add 233,000 Deaths by July but Save Millions of Jobs  By Andrew Soergel, U.S. News & World Report, May 1, 2020
• Restarting America Means People Will Die. So When Do We Do It?  By The New York Times Magazine, April 10, 2020
• ‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms.  By Abdi Latif Dahir, The New York Times, April 23, 2020
• A Tale of Two Possible Recoveries  by N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, April 16, 2020
• It’s the End of the World Economy as We Know It  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, April 16, 2020
• A Gloomy Prediction on How Much Poverty Could Rise  By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, April 16, 2020
• Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis  By Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, April 17, 2020
• 11 concrete steps the government can take to avert economic disaster  By Matthew Yglesias, vox.com, April 13, 2020
• Donald Trump is wrong, the economic hit of the coronavirus will last for years  By Barry Eichengreen, The Guardian (via Project Syndicate), April 13, 2020
• Fauci confirms New York Times report Trump rebuffed social distancing advice  By Martin Pengelli, The Guardian, April 12, 2020
•  Inequality doesn't just make pandemics worse – it could cause them  By Laura Spinney, The Guardian, April 12, 2020
• He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus  By Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, Mark Mazzetti and Julian E. Barnes, The New York Times, April 11, 2020
• Everything Is Awful. So Why Is the Stock Market Booming?  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, April 10, 2020
• Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation  By Michael Corkery and David Gelles, The New York Times, April 10, 2020
• Predictions for the Coronavirus Stock Market  By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, April 2, 2020
• Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract  by The Editorial Board, The Financial Times, April 3, 2020
• PANDUMBIC (Official Trailer)  The Daily Show, March 10, 2020
• Saluting the Heroes of the Coronavirus Pandumbic  The Daily Show, April 3, 2020
• Why Is Price-Gouging Bad?  by Paul Krugman, April 2020
• The dark side of ventilators: Those hooked up for long periods face difficult recoveries  By Carolyn Y. Johnson and Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post, April 3, 2020
• Testing Is Our Way Out  By Paul Romer and Rajiv Shah, The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2020
• Jobs Aren’t Being Destroyed This Fast Elsewhere. Why Is That?  By Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, March 30, 2020
• How You Can Protect Your Community, Not Just Your Own Health  By Oeindrila Dube and Katherine Baicker, The New York Times, March 26, 2020
• The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed.  By Nicholas Kulish, Sarah Kliff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times, March 29, 2020
• Testing Blunders Cost Vital Month in U.S. VIrus Fight  By Michael D. Shear, Abby Goodnough, Sheila Kaplan, Sheri Fink, Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland, The New York Times, March 29, 2020
• Price Gouging Complaints Surge Amid Coronavirus Pandemic  By Michael Levenson, The New York Times, March 27, 2020
• Key Economic Facts About COVID-19  by Michael Greenstone (editor), Becker Friedman Institute, March 27, 2020
• COVID-19 Policy Tracker  MultiState
• Simulating Covid-19: Part 1  by Paul Romer, March 23, 2020 [Also: Part 2 and Part 3]
• Coronavirus Info-Database  LessWrong
• HELP! (HEaLth and Pandemics) Econ Working Group 
• The U.S. Is About to Vastly Increase Its Debt. That’s a Good Thing.  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, March 27, 2020
• The Coronavirus Economy: When Washington Takes Over Business  By Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport, David Gelles, Peter Eavis and David Yaffe-Bellany, The New York Times, March 26, 2020
• After the Lockdown, Fear and Chaos in India  By Pragya Tiwari, The New York Times, March 25, 2020
• On Coronavirus, We’re #1  by Paul Krugman, The New York Times. March 27, 2020
• Can We Put a Price Tag on a Life? The Shutdown Forces a New Look  By Eduardo Porter and Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, March 24, 2020
• The Coronavirus Curve  Numberphile YouTube Channel, March 25, 2020
• Who Should Be Saved First? Experts Offer Ethical Guidance  By Austin Frakt, The New York Times, March 24, 2020
• Should older Americans die to save the economy? Ethicists call it a false choice.  By Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post, March 24, 2020
• What the Government Needs to Do Next  By James K. Galbraith, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Mar 23, 2020
• A Proposal for Social Insurance During the Pandemic By N. Gregory Mankiw, Greg Mankiw's Blog, March 23, 2020
  
• The U.S. Shut Down Its Economy. Here’s What Needs to Happen in Order to Restart.  By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, March 22, 2020
• The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only With Harsh Steps, Experts Say  By Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times, March 23, 2020
• We All Need Small Businesses. Don’t Let Them Die.  By Sendhil Mullainathan, The New York Times, March 19, 2020
• Just Use ‘the Computer’ to Give People More Money  By Stephanie Kelton, The New York Times, March 21, 2020
• Special Report: How Korea trounced U.S. in race to test people for coronavirus  by Chad Terhune, Dan Levine, Hyunjoo Jin, Jane Lanhee Lee, Reuters, March 18, 2020
• We know enough now to act decisively against Covid-19. Social distancing is a good place to start  By Marc Lipsitch, STAT, March 18, 2020
• The economic rationale for strong action now against Covid-19  By Mireille Jacobson and Tom Chang, STAT, March 18, 2020
• A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data  By John P.A. Ioannidis, STAT, March 17, 2020
• Plans for economic mitigation from the coronavirus by Tyler Cowen, downloaded on March 18, 2020
• Keeping Business Alive: The Government Will Pay by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, March 16, 2020
• Filling the Holes in Family and Business Budgets: Unemployment Benefits and Work Sharing in the Time of Pandemics by Arindrajit Dube, econfip (blog), March 2020
• Filling the Holes in Family and Business Budgets: Unemployment Benefits and Work Sharing in the Time of Pandemics by Arindrajit Dube, March 17, 2020
• The U.S. economy is in a tailspin—policymakers must do everything they can to protect workers and their families  by Claudia Sahm, Equitable Growth (blog), March 13, 2020
• How to Help American Businesses Endure and Jobs Survive  By Steven Hamilton and Stan Veuger, March 17, 2020 [Also available here.]
• How to Treat the Financial Symptoms of Covid-19  By John H. Cochrane, The Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2020
• Thoughts on the Pandemic by N. Gregory Mankiw, Greg Mankiw's Blog, March 13, 2020
• Possible Fiscal Policies for Rare, Unanticipated, and Severe Viral Outbreaks  by Bill Dupor, Economic Synopses, March 17, 2020
• Throwing a COVID-19 LIQUIDITY LIFE-LINE by Markus Brunnermeier, Jean-Pierre Landau, Marco Pagano and Ricardo Reis, 17 March 2020
• Macroeconomic Policy In The Time Of COVID-19 by Donald Marron, taxvox, March 17, 2020

Business Cycles

• Wall Street’s Recession Warning Is Flashing. Some Wonder if It’s Wrong. By Joe Rennison, The New York Times, July 12, 2023
  
• How Well Do Economists Forecast Recessions? By Zidong An, João Tovar Jalles, andPrakash Loungani, IMF Working Papers, March 5, 2018 
  
• Minding the Output Gap: What Is Potential GDP and Why Does It Matter? By Scott Wolla, Page One Economics, May 2021
  
• The Recession Isn’t Over Till They Say It’s Over. (But Who Are They?) By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, June 14, 2021
  
• Why the Coronavirus Could Threaten the U.S. Economy Even More Than China’s By Austan Goolsbee, The New York Times, March 6, 2020
• If people stop traveling and going to the dentist, the gym or even March Madness basketball games, the impact could be enormous.