Friday assorted links

1. India moves to a GST.

2. How to boost your medal count in seven easy steps, redux of my 2012 Grantland piece with Kevin Grier.

3. The culture that is French: “French town flooded with wine after protesters crack open vats.”

4. “Using a sample of 19 advanced economies spanning over 30 years, I find no empirical evidence that dynamics move in the way Piketty suggests.”

5. The couture culture that is Singapore.  And a German perspective on guns and violence in the United States.

6. Trump’s new economic advisory council.  And John Holbo on Johnson/Weld.