- January 26, 2021
What’s the Worst that Could Happen?
“Never tell me the odds,” said Han Solo to C-3PO as he deftly navigated through the asteroid field. They made it. But The Empire Strikes Back was a movie. SARS-CoV-2 is real.
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- January 19, 2021
Biden’s Minimum Wage
Last week President-Elect Joe Biden revealed a pandemic relief proposal. The list was mostly predictable: direct cash payments, enhanced unemployment benefits, vaccine funding, help for state and local governments.
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- January 12, 2021
Vaccines Are Not Enough
“Houston, we have a problem,” said the Apollo 13 crew. Now Houston is a problem as some of its largest hospitals reach 100% ICU occupancy.
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- January 5, 2021
This Vaccine Map Will Define 2021
Many have optimistic outlooks because they expect the COVID-19 pandemic to end this year. They vary mainly on when the inevitable boom will start. But nearly all assume…
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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.