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On this page, you will find articles that cite research done at The Rhodes Center, opinion pieces by our faculty and affiliates, interviews, podcasts and more.
In this radio interview, Mark Blyth explains the populist lingo around the GameStop situation on Wall Street, Robinhood and other day traders, and more.
Mark Blyth appears on this podcast segment to discuss the "day-trading" insurrectionists to uncover who is actually in control, what human emotions are unleashed by the markets and what it all means for politics and economics.
Mark Blyth appears in this podcast segment with Rana Foroohar to discuss, "If there were a real fear of inflation, there wouldn’t be such an appetite for long term government debt at what amounts to a negative interest rate."
Megan Greene, economics commentator at the Financial Times and Rhodes Center affiliate and US Economics Editor for the Financial Times, argues that central banks need to adopt new tools in light of historically low inflation rates.
The New York Times interviewed Peter Andreas, John Hay professor of international studies, about his new book, Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs. The Times calls his book a “complement and counterpoint to enduring fables and simplistic accounts surrounding wars and nations you may think you know… it offers a fascinating interpretive lens for drugs’ roles in making war and, in turn, wars’ roles in spreading drugs around the world.”
Andrew Schrank penned this article on why one of President-elect Biden’s first legislative priorities should be a substantial increase in the federal minimum wage.
In this article, Rich Arenberg, Mark Blyth, and Wendy Schiller share their analysis on what the nation can expect on Election Day and beyond - at the polls, on the streets and potentially in the courts.