- May 11, 2021
About that Labor Shortage
I have a childhood memory of Sesame Street’s little song, “One of these things is not like the other.” It was a useful lesson: Some things just don’t fit, and you can’t force them.
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- April 27, 2021
Capital Gains Problem
I saw a funny-but-true meme last week. It was about the food we grow.
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- April 20, 2021
Vaccine-Driven Boom May Fizzle
The narrative is nice to imagine: The US economy will grow fast in 2021 as we beat the coronavirus and everyone shops freely, travels widely, and hugs random strangers.
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- April 6, 2021
Vaccine Passports and the Economy
A distressing aspect of the pandemic—aside from the sickness, death, and recession—is the way it turned into a political and social wedge.
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Patrick Watson
Editor, Connecting the DotsPatrick Watson is a compulsive trend-observer and John Mauldin's senior economic analyst. He and John first began collaborating around 30 years ago, and he contributes research and ideas to John's wildly popular weekly e-letter, Thoughts from the Frontline. When John needs to make sense of the senseless, Patrick is often the first person he looks to.
