May 2020

Even before the shut-downs, the economy wasn’t working for the majority of people. Our experiment in the free-market has been tested and it has failed. Ever since the Great Recession, people have been discussing the rising inequality in Western society, but especially in the uber capitalistic North American society.  With COVID-19 impacting every industry, the […]

We are in a recession.  There is no doubt about it.  Unlike some other downturns, we are often still debating if the economic data supports calling an official recession.  The official definition is 2 consecutive quarters of slowing GDP.  But with this pandemic, we know that GDP and all productivity has fallen off a cliff.