Please join me as I explore the surprises coming with Climate Change, the Pandemic and the War in Ukraine from a background of studying development in 40 nations.
A public health system helps small firms attract employees who would normally be attracted to large firms offering health benefits.
Converting dirty money into clean money is a $2 trillion global business. Unless societies can curb money laundering they cannot control criminal organizations.
Japan is directing and subsidizing its corporations to bring their manufacturing home from China.
The defeat of President Trump in the 2020 elections is a victory for multilateralism which is about nations working together to deal with issues like climate change, diseases like covied-19, national disasters like floods, mass-migration and other threats to the global order.
Central banks are printing money. They are even buying the debt of corporations. Thank goodness those bankers aren’t politicians.
It seems all the nations of Eastern Europe are facing major population declines. The most serious being Bulgaria. And even today this means a collapse of the countryside with empty building and the closing of the shops. A mobile grocery service calls three times a week.
Climate change could destroy the Hawaiian Islands, one of the most beautiful places on earth. The famous beaches on Waikiki are threatened by rising sea levels. And their massive coral reefs are threatened by warming, acidic oceans.
