What we’ve been reading recently:
New Republic: No Country for Young Men – Mara Hvistendahl writes in The New Republic on what the one-child policy may mean for crime rates in China as a generation of frustrated men grows up. | newrepublic onechildpolicy
The New Yorker – The Financial Page: Let the Bad Times Roll – Surowiecki says a recession is the best time to start a magazine, historically speaking. Starts with an interesting anecdote about BusinessWeek’s founding, six weeks before the crash of 1929 | magazine media publishing
Economist: Inflation roundtable: Why do we care? – Just a matter of shoeleather and menu costs? Not quite, says this blog post. A commenter says: "The role of the central bank is to act as the communal memory, to recall the pain of inflation when all around have forgotten, or have never known." | china economics inflation
Economist: In the stocks – China’s securities exchanges have gained influence although their actual regulatory powers remain weak. A rebuke from them could send a stock’s prices sliding, according to a new Columbia University study | CSRC china corruption securities stocks
Economist: Policing the frontiers of finance – A Peterson Institute study says opening a developing economy to foreign capital flows does more harm than good; China’s case is used to show some interesting counter-examples and problems | capital china economics
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