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Bjørn Lomborg: How To Get Food on Every Table
Bjørn Lomborg writes in Slate: We have enough food to feed everyone. But we need to produce even more. Here is why. The problem of hunger can be solved. The planet creates more than enough food to meet...
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The Economist: Demography is Back
In its May 19th 2012 issue, The Economist magazine writes: DEMOGRAPHY is back. Not that its subject matter—the size and structure of populations—ever went away. But from the 1980s to the late 2000s...
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New York Times: US Public Pensions are Underfunded
MARY WILLIAMS WALSH AND DANNY HAKIM WRITE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: Few investors are more bullish these days than public pension funds. While Americans are typically earning less than 1 percent interest...
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CBO: US Entitlements Put Federal Debt on Unsustainable Path
PETER SUDERMAN WRITES IN REASON: The latest long-term budget outlook from the Congressional Budget Office reads like a particularly dark noir: Things start out pretty bad. And then they get worse....
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California Voters Approve Pension Cuts
IAN LOVETT WRITES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: LOS ANGELES — As Wisconsin residents voted on Tuesday not to recall Gov. Scott Walker — who has become an enemy of labor unions nationwide — two California...
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Europe: Aging Population Undermines Longer-Maturity Bonds
ANCHALEE WORRACHATE writes in Bloomberg News and highlights the adverse rise of the dependency ratio undermining European debt reduction efforts: The euro-region’s ability to grow its way out of the...
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The Economy’s New Boss: Demographics
by SAMI KARAM (also published at Seeking Alpha) The next President will have to contend with unfavorable demographics. An enormous amount of money will be spent in the last few weeks of the...
View ArticleThe Candidates’ Other Demographic Challenge
It is massively larger than 11 million illegals. Hans Rosling, co-founder of Gapminder, calls it “the biggest change of our time”. It is Africa’s population growth from 1 billion people today to 2.5...
View ArticleTalking About Brexit with Andrew Stuttaford
“So far as the original founders are concerned, the journey [of European integration] continues. The problem is it is not what most British people thought they were signing up for.” ____Andrew...
View ArticleOn White Collar Prosecutions, with Jesse Eisinger
“The government no longer has the will and ability to prosecute top corporate executives across a wide variety of major industries.”______ Jesse Eisinger Jesse Eisinger is a senior reporter at...
View ArticleThe Mainstream Media Will Rise Again
The news media was flattened on November 8th but its recovery has already started. One of the striking features in all the commentary on Facebook about Donald Trump’s victory is the number of times...
View ArticleTrump Country: Where the Immigrants Aren’t
Trump did best in the states with the lowest percentages of foreign-born residents. “I love the poorly-educated”, gushed Donald Trump after winning the Nevada primary in February. But in the end, what...
View ArticleFather of the Bernie Sanders Presidency
President Trump’s elite-managed populism opens a path for a more genuine version. On the usual political spectrum, there are left and right, people who call themselves progressive or conservative,...
View ArticleThe Cure for Inequality is More Laissez-Faire
That means less cronyism and more competition. “Inequality is not necessarily bad in itself: the key question is to decide whether it is justified.”____ Thomas Piketty in Capital in the Twenty-First...
View Article2020 Election: Democrats Heading to a Brokered Convention
An occasional commentary on the 2020 US Presidential Election in which demographics and identity politics play a bigger role than ever before. Today, President’s Day, is as good as any to draw some...
View ArticleCamus Against the Virus
Decency is of little value without a foundation of honesty. Albert Camus’ masterful novel La Peste (The Plague) is enjoying a resurgence in the current pandemic. Published in 1947 in the immediate...
View ArticleWednesday Briefs – 15 July 2020
A weekly commentary on current events. Follow populyst to receive notification. This week: Demographic megatrends, Coronavirus in New York and Florida, Vice-Presidential scenarios. Please contact us...
View ArticleWednesday Briefs – 2 September 2020
This week: 2020 Election; Market Flywheel; Strongmen; Reading List.Read more Wednesday Briefs – 2 September 2020
View ArticleFlorida in the Election
Once again Florida is a key presidential campaign battleground. A look at its demographics.Read more Florida in the Election
View ArticleWednesday Briefs – 23 September 2020
This week: Coronavirus in Europe and the USA; Supreme Court options; Markets in the fall; Reading List.Read more Wednesday Briefs – 23 September 2020
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