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  • Port-ly business

    The best take (by far) I’ve seen on the Adani-Hindenberg fiasco is by NYU’s Aswath Damodaran in his recent blog post. TL;DR – he argues that the main takeaways from this story should be the inherent failings of the Indian business and financial worlds, rather than something specific to Adani or Hindenberg. Indian business is…

  • Beaten, Black and Blue

    In a cruel twist of irony, I received a marketing call from an agency that wanted me to “voice support for our brave men in blue” the same day that five police officers in Memphis were charged with murdering a black man after a traffic stop. The videos of the incident are truly horrific, and…

  • Big P Progress

    As Americans exercise their rights in an increasingly strained democratic process, I celebrated this festival of democracy by reading Team of Rivals and watching Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln. Steeped in the hot political issues of today, traveling back to those times was a surreal experience. For one, it is remarkable how similar the political…

  • Xi Xi P

    In an ideal world, all ideas, even the bad ones, can be fairly evaluated. Their merits and demerits can be debated, and they can be experimentally analyzed (maybe in a nice randomized trial). But in practice, some ideas may have a hard time being given a fair chance, especially in certain contexts. For example, it…

  • Cry me a river

    A recent UN study projected that India could be the most populous country as early as next year. Around the same time, the results of a national survey were released, showing that fertility rates have dropped just below replacement rate for the first time. Both seem to be good news, in that there’s a large…