After Trump's election in 2016, four of my blog pieces about him were published on the Brookings website. Here I assess what I wrote then.

Here’s a story about my collaboration with a student on an essay about “China’s Demographic Future” published in 2024 by Scientific American

Some good news about Parami U but Myanmar remains in chaos due to the ongoing conscription. Some modest territorial gains by the opposition.

The services sector has been leading India's recent economic growth. Critics say manufacturing should lead in the future. I argue for focusi

Nine rising Juniors from Parami University had internships in Washington DC this summer with nine great organizations. This is their story.

We have updated the story published by Scientific American in May 2024. Our short update has just been posted by a think tank in Hong Kong.

I sent a letter to the Council of Economic Advisors in 1986 taking issue with the Council’s position on immigration. My view hasn’t changed.

In December 2015, I presented a paper at a conference in Hong Kong on a radical approach to developing a site in Myanmar as a new city.

On 3 April 2024, the DC-based newspaper The Hill published a short version of this co-authored essay. Here is the long version.

It starts in India in 1965, I was in the Peace Corps, continues in Bali, and finishes up in Paris. The main character is a French woman.

Two of my distant French cousins died and I ended up being the heir of one estate and settling the other in the absence of a will...

In 2022, I joined a group of ex-US Treasury officials to advise the Ukraine government on key issues in international finance.

There is only bad news in this update. The military junta started conscripting men for the army, plunging the country into chaos.

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across an ad from PNC Bank, perhaps embedded in a Google search. It featured the President of PNC Bank...

This is my lifetime best publishing achievement. I don't expect to ever top it in terms of readership and policy significance.

The essay in The Atlantic proposes global wealth cap, resonating with my 2016 message to the President of Brookings on wealth inequality.

Kevin Quigley and I drafted a 3,000-word essay last summer on "The Future of the Peace Corps". A short op-ed version has just been posted on

There is very little sense of community in my new residence. Does it matter? Is it related to the creation of the internet?

A surprising turn in the conflict in Burma gets priority in this Update; meanwhile all is going well at Parami University.

No new posts for more than two months because of my crazy life of travel and writing. I’m working on some topics of above-average interest.