As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, […]
Some of the world’s largest gold producers may be forced to engage in targeted acquisitions or expand their exploration activities to overcome a sharp decline in their gold reserves. This is despite spending $US69.5 bn on acquisitions and exploration activities since 2010, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. “With top […]
Many consider that the back-to-school plan is not adequate for its purpose. On the other hand, there are those who point out that COVID-19 almost never kills children, however, everyone is really concerned about who children can transmit the virus to, whether they are teachers, parents, grandparents. Related to that, […]
Don’t cut badly needed coronavirus spending now. (But pare Social Security and Medicare later.) Government programs to blunt the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic will make the federal budget deficit much wider in 2020 than at any point in the last 75 years. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s new forecasts, […]
He’s not fit to run a G7 country, or even a lemonade stand, with handouts equivalent to spending of adolescent trust fund kid A recent international poll showed that most Canadians believe Canada has done an excellent job battling COVID-19. That’s true, but plaudits belong to the provinces for mobilizing their […]
Ever since the early stages of the US-China trade/tech/virus/cold war four years ago, there were frequent rumors — which eventually gave way to increasingly legitimate chatter — that China was looking to go full “nuclear option” by selling some or all of its $1+ trillion of US Treasury securities, which incidentally has not been […]
That includes 42 of the top 43 centers of violent crime. As Marxist and anarchist radicals continue to turn Democrat-run American cities into war zones, Democrats assure us that they alone understand how the current crisis can be resolved. White House hopeful Joe Biden, for example, vows that “as President,” […]
President Donald Trump’s expansive new eviction ban will help some tenants delay the inevitable. But it’s missing a key ingredient that only lawmakers can supply: money. “Ultimately, it creates new urgent pressure on Congress to get back to work and pass a final Covid 19 relief bill,” said Diane Yentel, […]
China may gradually reduce its holdings of US Treasury bonds to about $800 billion from the current level of more than $1 trillion, as the ballooning US federal deficit increases default risks and the Trump administration continues its blistering attack on China, experts said. China, the world’s second-largest holder of […]
Three weeks after the government unveils its new agenda, the cracks are already beginning to appear, as Trudeau’s spending plan has some liberals and bureaucrats really worried. Likewise, he has referred to the NDP, disparagingly, as liberals in a hurry. Notably, it has been said that the New Democrats will […]