China’s economic situation looks increasingly precarious. Last year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime began a regulatory reset that has throttled the country’s economic outlook. Today amid escalating COVID-related lockdowns, depressed consumer and business sentiment, and geopolitical instability, the risk for an economic contraction is clear. Global businesses need to evaluate their China strategy and…
The Political Hierarchy of Infection
Commentary I’m writing this mostly for future historians for whom this whole period of our lives could likely appear to be one big blur. In fact, for those who lived it, it unfolded in stages with an obvious theme. And that theme, tragically, is rooted in class demarcations. The elites wanted to avoid the virus…
Chinese Developers’ Debt Woes Worsen as Sales, Yuan Weaken
HONG KONG—Chinese developer Zhongliang Holdings is scrambling to secure bondholder approval to extend the repayment on notes worth $729 million ahead of a key deadline next week, joining peers desperate to avoid offshore debt defaults. The Shanghai-based company has struggled to sell enough houses amid a sustained property downturn in China or secure refinancing to…
Why Won’t They Admit Failure?
Commentary It seems strange that one of the world’s richest men would feel the need for a book tour to boost sales. But that is what Bill Gates is doing, granting a series of interviews with deferential journalists. The thesis of his book and his interviews is that we should have locked down harder, sooner, and more…
The Fed Made a Serious Mistake
Commentary The latest released U.S. inflation was expected to slow down. The rationale behind such a bet by the economists might be the high base of a year ago: March 2021 was at 2.6 percent, and April 2021 was 4.2 percent. If only in this sense, a slower number for last month may not mean…
The Public Health Prophet We Did Not Heed
Commentary Donald Henderson, who died in 2016, was a giant in the field of epidemiology and public health. He was also a man whose prophetic warnings from 2006 we chose to ignore in March of 2020. Dr. Henderson directed a ten-year international effort from 1967–1977 that successfully eradicated smallpox. Following this, he served as Dean…
It’s Not Over. It’s Just Begun
Commentary For the last two days I’ve felt an uneasy sense of grief, or of a heavy pressure on my heart. At first I could not figure out the cause of it. Nothing unusual was wrong in my personal life. My loved ones were safe and well, thank God. The battle for liberty was ongoing,…
[PREMIERING 7:30PM ET] Jeffrey Tucker: How the US Adopted CCP-Inspired COVID-19 Control Policies, a Timeline
This episode will premiere on Saturday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “How come HHS [Health and Human Services] released its lockdown blueprint on March 13 when Trump hadn’t even given his approval to anything remotely resembling lockdowns until two days later? There’s a lot that we need to know.” Why did the United…
[PREMIERING NOW] Jeffrey Tucker: How the US Adopted CCP-Inspired COVID-19 Control Policies, a Timeline
This episode will premiere on Saturday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “How come HHS [Health and Human Services] released its lockdown blueprint on March 13 when Trump hadn’t even given his approval to anything remotely resembling lockdowns until two days later? There’s a lot that we need to know.” Why did the United…
Jeffrey Tucker: How the US Adopted CCP-Inspired COVID-19 Control Policies, a Timeline
“How come HHS [Health and Human Services] released its lockdown blueprint on March 13 when Trump hadn’t even given his approval to anything remotely resembling lockdowns until two days later? There’s a lot that we need to know.” Why did the United States and much of the rest of the world throw out standard pandemic…
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