Linkfest: January 31, 2018

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What I am reading today

The Few Winners from Medicaid's Shift to Managed Care (Strategy+Business)
The top 4 creative agencies that ruled YouTube in 2017 (Think with Google)


Tougher than it looks: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase's big plan to cut health costs (Buffett Watch)
Sensex and its budget moves (Forbes India Magazine)
Budget 2018: India Largest Arms Importer, Yet Defence Of Realm Falters (IndiaSpend)
Latticework of Mental Models: Naive Realism (Safal Niveshak)
Africa's arrival (Brookings: Economics)
Skyscrapers and Slums: What's Driving Mumbai's Housing Crisis? (IDFC)
2018: End of the media agency life as we know it? (afaqs!: Guest Articles)
Modi Should Keep His Fiscal Promises (Bloomberg View: India)

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