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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Interview: Julia Hauser and Sarnath Banerjee, authors, The Moral Contagion

You write that the idea for your book came during the onset of Covid-19. It was liberating to not have to work on footnotes or refer much to other people’s research, though I do add a list of the works I consulted at the book’s end. I also included characters I couldn’t find in sources because the sources don’t touch …

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2 months ago

Social Engineering: How to Counter the Spread of Contagious Beliefs

Times of India

Author Malcolm Gladwell explores the concept of the tipping point in social engineering and argues that choices made to alter the shape of a contagious phenomenon can also be used against people. He applies this argument to the US opioid crisis, highlighting the unique superstory and superspreaders of the minority of doctors who thought handing out drugs willy-nilly was what …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Curbing the suicide contagion

Hindustan Times

In 1774, German polymath and writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe published his novel “ The Sorrows Of Young Werther ”, a book in which the protagonist takes his own life once he realises that he won’t be able to marry the woman he loves. A young life cut short abruptly is distressing anywhere in the world but an article that appeared …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

A neuroscientist explains how Taylor Swift hijacks your brain and what it means for Trump

Raw Story

If you’re reading this, it is likely that Taylor Swift has hijacked your brain. Trump also predicted there’s “no way” Swift “could endorse Crooked Joe Biden.” Trump’s desperate plea makes it clear that Swift’s decision of who to endorse is a big deal. But the original concept of a meme, as proposed by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, is a well-known …

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10 months ago

Review: ‘The Moral Contagion’ | The history of pandemics, told in a most engaging manner

The Hindu

February 23, 2024 08:30 am | Updated 11:53 am IST I’ll go ahead and admit it: during the pandemic, I snacked on an unhealthy dose of true crime podcasts and longform writing around the Coronavirus. In reading The Moral Contagion, written by Julia Hauser and illustrated by Sarnath Banerjee, I was firmly but gently reminded that COVID-19 was yet another …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Why 'turnover contagion' is spreading

BBC

The Great Resignation: Has quitting become too 'cool'? I could do what my co-worker did and go work at this other organization,’ it’s a surge of power’.” Getty Images Some workers report regretting their decisions to quit That’s tempting, says Klotz, because “it feels liberating. And when workers are constantly reading news stories about people quitting, or even seeing viral …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Will AI art make the human artist irrelevant?

The Hindu

Published : Apr 06, 2023 11:00 IST - 13 MINS READ It all started innocuously enough, with Wombo, a text-to-image AI app that was all the rage in 2021. The Contagion group, supported by the University of Oxford, is an initiative which “explores how AI, music composition, and narrative theory intersect to help us think in more innovative ways about …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Two Adani Group firms exposed to 'contagion risks', says Fitch Ratings

India Today

Ratings agency Fitch said two Adani Group subsidiaries were exposed to "heightened contagion risks", possibly affecting their financial flexibility, due to weak governance at the parent conglomerate and other companies in the group. Adani Transmission Ltd and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone "would be capped at current rating level of 'BBB-/Stable' till alleged concerns are ironed out," Fitch said …

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1 year, 8 months ago

When Is a Global Economic Meltdown Expected? Five Financial Experts Lay It Down

The Quint

Silicon Valley Bank failure, and the massive contagion it sparked, look like a classic banking run. The response from the US Treasury and the US Federal Reserve—which applied nineteenth-century British economist Walter Bagehot’s principle that, to stem panic, a lender of last resort is needed—also looks quite familiar. First, in 2008, the worry about collapse was so intense that a …

1 year, 9 months ago

What caused the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and is there a danger of ‘contagion’? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu

Last week, California-based Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, collapsed, sending shock waves through the start-up universe. The Biden administration has announced that all the depositors’ savings in the Silicon Valley Bank will be protected, including those deposits over and above the sums that are insured. The Federal Reserve, on its part, has unveiled a …

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1 year, 9 months ago

’Raises more questions than it answers’, Bill Ackman on FRB’s $30 bn rescue plan

Live Mint

Hitting out at the $30 billion rescue package for First Republic Bank, investor Bill Ackman called it an act of spreading the risk of financial contagion to achieve “false sense of confidence”. In his recent tweet, Bill Ackman said the move by the largest US banks to come forward to deposit $30 billion with First Republic “raised more questions than …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Signature Bank’s demise: Contagion or a problem with the business?

Associated Press

Signature Bank’s collapse came stunningly fast, leaving behind the question of whether there was a fundamental flaw in the way it did business — or if it was just a victim of the panic that spread after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. There were few outward signs that Signature Bank was crumbling before the New York Department of Financial …

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1 year, 9 months ago

NY bank's demise: Contagion or a problem with the business?

The Independent

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1 year, 9 months ago

Amid global SVB contagion fears, Credit Suisse shares plunge by over 20 per cent

Hindustan Times

Shares of financial services firm and bank Credit Suisse plunged over 20 per cent - falling for an eighth consecutive session - on the Swiss stock exchange Wednesday amid concerns after its top shareholder ruled out more investment and the lender's short-term debt approached distress levels. The head of Credit Suisse's largest investor, the Saudi National Bank, told Reuters it …

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1 year, 9 months ago

TMS Ep389: Repo rate hike, HUL CEO Rohit Jawa, YES Bank, contagion risk

Business Standard

The February inflation saw a dip from the January numbers. All eyes are on the Reserve Bank of India or RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting next month. One of the biggest fast-moving consumer goods or FMCG companies in India, HUL, is all set to welcome its new chief executive officer and managing director this year. The mandatory three-year lock-in period …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Lesson from Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath explains

Live Mint

Zerodha founder and investor Nithin Kamath said the lesson for the fallout of Silicon Valley Bank or the most recent collapse of a mid-sized Yes Bank in the Indian context is to have funds, especially working capital, distributed across a bunch of banks. Take a look at his tweet: The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank has rocked the markets, …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Banking stocks plummet on fears of SVB contagion

The Telegraph

The crisis in the banking industry was at risk of spreading last night after US President Joe Biden failed to fully reassure financial markets following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Regional US lenders, including California’s First Republic Bank, Arizona’s Western Alliance Bank and Los Angeles-based PacWest, all saw their share prices plunge by more than half on Monday. It …

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1 year, 9 months ago

U.S. govt. rules out SVB bailout, wants to avoid 'contagion': Treasury Secretary Yellen

The Hindu

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on March 12 said the government wanted to avoid financial "contagion" from the implosion of the Silicon Valley Bank but ruled out a bailout of the institution. "We want to make sure that the troubles that exist at one bank don't create contagion to others that are sound," Ms. Yellen said during an interview with …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Silicon Valley Bank ‘contagion’ may leave India unscathed

The Hindu

The failure of the U.S.-based Silicon Valley Bank may only hit some Indian tech startups and IT firms for now, while any broader “contagion” effects that may arise will neither reach Indian shores in a hurry nor are they likely to trigger “systemic risks”, according to top Finance Ministry officials. However, the Central government is cognisant of the fact that …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Adani crisis ignites India contagion fears, credit warnings

Al Jazeera

Amid concerns turmoil could over into broader financial system, India’s central bank has asked lenders for loan details, sources say. Financial contagion fears spread in India on Friday as Adani Group’s crisis worsened, with ratings agency Moody’s warning the conglomerate may struggle to raise capital and S&P cutting the outlook on two of its businesses. Moody’s warned the share plunge …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Adani contagion spreads as MSCI India index nears correction

Live Mint

The crisis engulfing Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s corporate empire has started dragging down a broader range of assets tied to the world’s fastest-growing major economy. Contagion from the $100 billion wipe-out in Adani group’s stocks following a scathing report from Hindenburg Research last week has helped push the MSCI India Index to the brink of a technical correction. “The long-term …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Ebola infects 6 schoolkids in Uganda as contagion fear grows

Associated Press

KAMPALA, Uganda — Six schoolchildren in Uganda’s capital have tested positive for Ebola, the health minister said Wednesday, marking a serious escalation of the outbreak declared just over a month ago. The children, who attend three different schools in Kampala, are among at least 15 people in the city confirmed to have been infected with Ebola, according to a statement …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Ebola infects 6 schoolkids in Uganda as contagion fear grows

The Independent

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2 years, 5 months ago

The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time

Slate

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done,” Sydney Carton thinks on his way to the guillotine. We may recoil at Macbeth’s crimes, but we thrill at his rage, and Shakespeare recognizes the glory of this hopeless last stand, giving Macbeth some really great lines on his way out—including some immortal last words: …

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Interview: Julia Hauser and Sarnath Banerjee, authors, The Moral Contagion

Social Engineering: How to Counter the Spread of Contagious Beliefs

Curbing the suicide contagion

A neuroscientist explains how Taylor Swift hijacks your brain and what it means for Trump

Review: ‘The Moral Contagion’ | The history of pandemics, told in a most engaging manner

Why 'turnover contagion' is spreading

Will AI art make the human artist irrelevant?

Two Adani Group firms exposed to 'contagion risks', says Fitch Ratings

When Is a Global Economic Meltdown Expected? Five Financial Experts Lay It Down

What caused the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and is there a danger of ‘contagion’? | In Focus podcast

’Raises more questions than it answers’, Bill Ackman on FRB’s $30 bn rescue plan

Signature Bank’s demise: Contagion or a problem with the business?

NY bank's demise: Contagion or a problem with the business?

Amid global SVB contagion fears, Credit Suisse shares plunge by over 20 per cent

TMS Ep389: Repo rate hike, HUL CEO Rohit Jawa, YES Bank, contagion risk

Lesson from Silicon Valley Bank’s failure, Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath explains

Banking stocks plummet on fears of SVB contagion

U.S. govt. rules out SVB bailout, wants to avoid 'contagion': Treasury Secretary Yellen

Silicon Valley Bank ‘contagion’ may leave India unscathed

Adani crisis ignites India contagion fears, credit warnings

Adani contagion spreads as MSCI India index nears correction

Ebola infects 6 schoolkids in Uganda as contagion fear grows

Ebola infects 6 schoolkids in Uganda as contagion fear grows

The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time