22 October 2020 The long-anticipated Covid second wave is here (third wave in the USA). Experts project, correctly I suspect, that as winter arrives and activity heads indoors, the rate of infection will accelerate significantly further. In the United States, for example, I would not be surprised if daily new cases rise from 50,000 to [...]
18 September 2020 Presidential candidate Joe Biden's economic program is taking shape. His plan to "Build Back Better" following the pandemic will involve higher levels of government spending and taxation. My intention is not to project the numerical impact on the nation's public finances, as this is ably accomplished by Penn Wharton, the Committee for [...]
10 September 2020 With Labour Day celebrations marking the unofficial end of summer, the US electoral race now will enter its final (and likely most brutal) phase. We do not need President Clinton's 1992 campaign strategist James Carville, who famously coined the phrase "it's the economy, stupid", to remind us of the role the economy [...]
31 August 2020 The Republican and Democratic conventions are over, and the US election campaign will shift into high gear. Surely, climate change will be one of the most important topics for the US electorate to consider. Democratic candidate Joe Biden wants America to become net-carbon neutral by 2050, and to eliminate the use of [...]