• 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 19
• Jesse and Madhavi discuss:
• quantitative easing and the continued misallocation of investment
• the Asian cultural preference for gold (and a possible Asianization of global investment preferences)
• some lessons from Abenomics for the rest of the world

Links:

• 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.

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