This week’s readings/links include a conversation with Duvvuri Subbarao on how the Indian economy can get back on track, Dan Wang’s 2019 letter, the WSJ on the world’s disappearing cash, R.AGE’s investigative piece on pangolin trafficking and David Gauvey Herbert on the true story of China’s biggest bank heist.

• When will the elephant dance?: Duvvuri Subbarao, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, talks about how the Indian economy can get back on track.
• Dan Wang: 2019 letter.
• The world’s cash is disappearing: Bankers aren’t sure where it went (subscription required).
• R.AGE: The pangolin and the dark world of trafficking.
• Jackpot: How two lottery-crazed bank clerks cooked up China’s biggest bank robbery of all time.