President Trump, his leadership and the economics of pandemic, aka: Trumpassery in Action
Updating charts comparing Sweden and ex-Sweden Nordic countries, normalizing population of the latter to that of Sweden:Nope, no ‘herd immunity’ in Sweden. But there is a crushed curve for new cases and deaths in the Nordics.
Russia continues to report slowly declining numbers of new cases, while official death rates are trending up:The above numbers confirm what I have been saying for some time now: relaxation of constraints in advance of the constitutional referendum vote…
While I was whitewater rafting over the weekend, the US of A has finally surpassed the EU27 in terms of overall death counts relating to COVID19 pandemic. This is without adjusting the figures for population size or pandemic onset timing, etc.So here a…
The pandemic is still in Wave 1, and this wave is still accelerating.
Self-employed workers rarely get any systemic/analytical attention from policymakers and business analysts. Despite their huge importance in modern economies. This especially applies to the current environment, impacted by COVID19, in which policy tool…
Sweden has been continuing its uncontested-by-anyone-else march toward thee non-existent ‘herd immunity’:And the pipeline of upcoming intensive care patients seems to be un-abating:In the mean time, the rest of the Nordics have crushed the curve. And t…
U.S. is now one day away from catching up with the EU27 in terms of total deaths
New cases are at a historic high.
Continued unemployment claims and others.