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Maybe historians will look back on this as the year of Old Power. Think about it. Older people, who were some of the first in line for the vaccine shots, are now being celebrated as the leaders of the post-COVID social scene ... “Good news: I just got vaccinated!” tweeted Steve Martin. “Bad news: I got it because I’m 75.” Meanwhile, President Joe Biden, 78, is going like a house on fire. A few weeks ago Congress passed his $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill. Now he’s introducing the world to his $2 trillion infrastructure plan. Second big whopper of an initiative fr...

Gail Collins: Questions about Joe Biden and his trillions What is infrastructure, anyway? And just what is a trillion? (Doug Mills | The New York Times) President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and the state of vaccinations, from the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, on the White House grounds in Washington, Monday, March 29, 2021. Biden appeared in western Pennsylvania Wednesday, March 31, 2021, afternoon to unveil his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, a far-reaching proposal that he will seek to pay for with a substantial increase in corporate ...

Make the 2020s a Decade of Reform 21 min read Our two parties have each decided that the other is the country's biggest problem, which makes it difficult to take up any other problems through the tools and institutions available to our system of government. The president who will take the oath of office in January 2021 will face some enormous governing challenges. Some are practical and obvious. Our country will be about a year into its confrontation with the global COVID-19 pandemic, and even if we are close to defeating the virus, both the public health and economic burd...

2020 was obviously an epoch-making year for economies everywhere and these historic shifts are fully reflected in the web pages of BRINK.  In all, we published 130 articles on the status of the economy in 2020 — some on global tectonic shifts, but many pieces looking at what was going on in individual countries, as varied as Chile, Vietnam, India, Saudi Africa, Japan and Germany. Optimism at the Beginning The year began with a sense of confidence about the general direction of things. On January 28, we ran a piece by CEO Jim Kaitz of Association for Financial Professionals, called “Finan...