The Covid-19 Alphabet America is suffering through a pandemic that’s ravaged its confidence, its health and its economy … with only the most tenuous signs of possible abatement. Covid-19 has further undermined America’s already-weakened role as global leader and confirmed that the global order of...
Covid Math Today’s craze is “Covid Math” … and everyone’s doing it. The media do it best, highlighting the juiciest, most exciting numbers and making the most electrifying calculations in reporting the number of Americans who have been infected by and died from Covid-19. ...
America’s Victory … or Al Qaeda’s? The April 19, 2020 TLR highlighted America’s mountain of debt …, a substantial portion of which was borrowed to fund America’s War on Terror. Prior to 9/11, America’s national debt stood at $5.7 trillion. U.S. Federal debt now...
Coronanomics 101 Remember “too big to fail,” the rationale for the government’s bailout of banks and large corporations during the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis? Doing so was challenged as creating an unacceptable “moral hazard,” the danger that American companies thereafter would rely on the government...
This Time is Different – A Redux As Mark Twain reputedly said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Is history repeating itself today? Or is it merely rhyming? Economists and historians make their livings based on the maxim that cycles – whether economic, social or...
