Linkage: Economist Archive Edition
My friend Ken came by the other day and asked me if I really read The Economist every week. “Yes,” I lied. I’ve been too busy in recent months (as an entrepreneur) to read weekly like I have for years (as a corporate exec), and The Economist is the one finance rag I prefer to read on paper. So for months I’ve set issues aside I want to read later, and tonight I’m putting all those articles below so I can recycle the giant stack of mags.
Hope you find these interesting as I do. And if you get locked out by the paywall and want me to cover a certain issue in more detail, send me a note and I’ll do it.
CONSUMER FINANCE STUFF FROM ECONOMIST IN RECENT MONTHS
- Woke capitalism: how companies can appeal to workers and customers(economist.com)
- What happens when your bitcoin banker dies? (economist.com)
- Open office plans create closed minds(economist.com)
- What 19th-century opium dealers and 1970s telecoms monopolies can teach Silicon Valley(economist.com)
- The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism(economist.com)
- What will replace LIBOR as a benchmark mortgage & consumer loan benchmark?(economist.com)
- The end of LIBOR(economist.com)
- Scramble to replace LIBOR(economist.com)
- Unwinding Fed's balance sheet and quantitative easing(economist.com)
- Private equity barbarians grow up(economist.com)
- Economist Philosophy Briefs: a review of liberal economic thinkers(infographics.economist.com)
- Special report on Childhood(economist.com)
- Outlook dim if you have no college degree(economist.com)
- Biggest tax break nobody knows about: opportunity zones(economist.com)
- Do small companies even stand a chance vs. today’s corporate giants?(economist.com)
- Manifesto for renewing liberalism, Economist style(economist.com)
- Longform essay on renewing liberalism (economist.com)
- Mental health in the workplace (economist.com)
- Central bankers will fight next recession with their backs against the wall(economist.com)
- What blockchain can and can’t do for businesses (economist.com)
- A realist’s guide to crypto(economist.com)
- Silicon Valley’s lead over other tech hubs is slimming(economist.com)
- Are you a stock or a bond?(economist.com)
- Worries about rise of gig economy mostly overblown(economist.com)
- How governments should deal with rise of gig economy(economist.com)
- The decade’s 8 best young economists (economist.com)
- Economists reconsider how much governments can borrow (economist.com)
- Current state of credit default swaps - a big culprit of 2008 crisis(economist.com)
- How to tax the rich(economist.com)