Learning From Triple Shocks in 2020
I have been looking and thinking back of this turmoil year of 2020 lately. With today being the last day of 2020, it makes perfect sense to write this blog.
Month: December 2020
Pareto Efficiency & Jill Biden Doctorate Degree of Education
There has been a dispute of medium scale of late about President-elect Joe Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, or more specifically, about her doctorate degree in education (“Ed. D.” for short)
A Bad Day
Feeling low today as I was cleaning the drawer and found several pictures of my parents, my sisters and brother in 2000, when I became US citizen and visited China
The Economics of Globalization Backlash
Just finished my draft on the globalization backlash and the followings are the highlights: The trade models (the Ricardian and Smithian) can help us understand both globalization and backlash; The
The China Strategy: Let Practicality Prevail
The Chinese are among the most practical people in the world, so it helps to install a mindset of practicality in dealing with them. The first thing about practicality is
Trump Was Much Ado About Nothing!
Just want to record this time, this day, for the sake of history that a sitting president has refused to admit his loss but in the end, truth prevails and
Sustainable Democracy & Compromises Spread Over Time
I can hardly stop laughing when I was reading this nice piece of legal explanation of the SCOTUS decision tossing out the Texas case for Trump, especially the metaphor in
One of the Best Opinion Essays
Just spotted this NYT essay that is filled with insights and professional knowledge. The three elements of “unwritten constitution” — Separation of federal prosecution, political neutrality of the military and
We Should All Be Scared
I came to this Chinese blog site written by a head nurse (do not know her personally) in an American hospital (reading contents in different languages is the best way
The Supreme Principle For An Ideologically Neutral Presidency
Received my NYT newsletter this morning and its content was pretty shocking: “The Democratic Party’s biggest problem today is its struggle to win over working-class voters”, where “working class” is