The Human Factor I have written many times about the importance of human emotions and behavior in determining the course of the economy and financial markets. We are currently experiencing a fascinating example as it relates to the personal savings rate which is...
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Many of my white papers have referenced the fact that most economic policies and actions have secondary and tertiary effects, unintended consequences, and quite often, distinct winners and losers. The economic trauma associated with Covid-19 has resulted in government policies that provide a...
In the midst of World War II, a woman told Winston Churchill that the best thing he had done was to give people courage. He replied, “I never gave them courage. I was able to focus theirs.” During highly stressful times such as...
In response to the Coronavirus, corporations, educational institutions, and governments have taken dramatic steps to control the trajectory of the contagion. It now seems unlikely that the virus can be contained so the objective is to spread out its impact over time in...
There is virtually universal agreement that our nation’s infrastructure is in poor condition resulting in lost economic opportunity as well as potential risk to life and limb. Yet, for a variety of structural, political, and economic reasons, we have been unable to deal...
In August of 2019, we published a paper called Let’s Get Real that pointed out that long term economic growth is equal to the sum of population growth and increases in output per hour worked, otherwise known as productivity growth. Over the past...