The World According to Garp

(1) Global economic dysfunction isn’t all about Trump’s trade wars. (2) Low fertility rates around the world suggest voluntary self-extinction of the human race. (3) Debt financed fiscal spending on retirement benefits may be weighing on growth. (4) Central banks still doing whatever it takes, including enabling MMT. (5) Fiscal and monetary policies for geriatric economies. (6) Global manufacturing weighed down by trade wars and geriatric demographic profiles. (7) US economy seems less dysfunctional than many overseas economies.