Category: COVID Economy

PREMIERING NOW: Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…


Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…


PREMIERING 3/2 at 7:30PM ET: Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…


Omicron Fears Lower Winter 2022 Economic Growth Forecasts as Variant Spreads

Economists are downgrading their global economic growth forecasts for Q1 2022, due to diminished economic returns in December, as businesses and customers struggle with the sudden spread of the Omicron variant. Analysts had anticipated that a winter wave of COVID would lead to a downturn in Q1 2022, but many were caught off guard by the…


Feds Extend Business, Worker Aid to End of October

OTTAWA—The federal government is tapping the brakes on its plans to phase out pandemic aid programs this summer, deciding instead to freeze benefits at current levels and extend help by an extra month beyond the previously planned end date. The decision means that wage and rent subsidies for businesses, and income support for workers out…