Donald Trump

President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks on purchasing Greenland, as well as reclaiming the Panama Canal Zone and incorporating Canada as the 51st state, caused public consternation globally. The statements – unsurprising due to Mr. Trump’s nature – are widely considered as unbelievable, for some insulting and somewhat mad. Looking more closely, however, it is very probable […]

    For me the most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘tariff’ and it is my favorite word   Donald J. Trump     Mercantilism Roughly by the beginning of the 15th century, Mercantilism began to replace the medieval ideas of Universalism and dominated economic thinking more or less to the end of the […]

The dice are cast. The elections are over. GIS does not usually look back, but in this case it is justified as the presidential vote in the United States signals changes to come, with implications for the future. Illogic dominated right from the beginning. Let us start with the Democrats. It is difficult to understand […]

  As presidents of the United States, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden resided in the White House during the 2017-2020 and the 2021-2024 periods, respectively. Their economic records are difficult to compare, as four years is not much time to evaluate a country’s overall economic performance or to appreciate how past policies or […]