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.
Governments are using the pandemic to increase their powers. Democracies are under threat.
Climate winners or losers? Drought or desalination? Animals dying or thriving? Polar bears are climate losers and grey whales are climate winners. A little quirky?
It is all about demographics. White people are not having babies. Need to import Asians and Hispanics to fund our public health care and pensions.
Central banks are printing money. They are even buying the debt of corporations. Thank goodness those bankers aren’t politicians.
Women could not inherit. It was the law. The wrong child inherited in my great-grandfather’s family.
Aid agencies focus on big stuff like roads and electric power. Governments focus on small stuff like financing small business.
The substantial Cuban population in Miami that hates the Cuban Communist regime, helps put Florida into the arms of the Republican Party in the USA. But it does not prevent major trade, investment and tourism between Canada and Cuba.
