Common Resources

• Many Climate Policies Struggle to Cut Emissions, Study Finds By Austyn Gaffney, The New York Times, August 22, 2024
  
• Can Fees on Polluting Cars Clean the Air? London Has New Evidence. By Somini Sengupta, The New York Times, July 26, 2024
  
• Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming PBS NewsHour, June 24, 2024 [Tragedy of the Commons and the Ogallala Aquifer.]
  
• 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

• Massachusetts, Money, and Inflation-Linked Notes By Daniel Dematos, The Tontine Coffee House, August 19, 2024
  
• Growth Stocks. Value Stocks. What Do Those Labels Mean? By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, May 10, 2024
  
• 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 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
  
• 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 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
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• The Safe, High-Return Trade Hiding in Plain Sight By Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal, May 28, 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
• Course Materials
• empirical asset pricing By Ralph Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, 2021
  
• YouTube
  
• Emil Verner on Banking Crises, Credit Booms, and the Rise of Populism Mercatus Center, YouTube, Nov. 18, 2024
  
• Alex Tabarrok on DEFI Decentralized Finance - Crypto and Blockchain Macmillan Learning, YouTube, February 23, 2022
  
• 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
• Retirement
• Why Do So Many Americans Pass Up Bigger Social Security Checks? By Peter Coy, The New York Times, November 11, 2024
  
• A look at the Social Security funding gap and ways to fix it PBS NewsHour, YouTube, August 12, 2024
  
• How Much of My Paycheck Should I Save? By Tanza Loudenback, Buy Side from WSJ, June 21, 2024
  
• Was the 401(k) a Mistake? By Michael Steinberger, The New York Times Magazine, May 8, 2024
• What to Do When Your 401(k) Leaves Something to Be Desired By Mark Miller, The New York Times, April 19, 2024
• How Much Do I Really Need to Retire? By Tanza Loudenback, Buy Side from WSJ, December 21, 2023
• How Much Should I Have in Savings? By Steve Garmhausen, The Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2023
• How to Enjoy Retirement Without Going Broke By Peter Coy, The New  York Times, August 27, 2021
• How IRAs Work And Why They Are More Popular Than 401(k)s CNBC YouTube Channel, August 12, 2021
• How 401(k) Plans Work And Why They Killed Pensions CNBC YouTube Channel, March 24, 2021
  
• 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
  
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