They just now noticed?

The United States Blues

Four months before a critical election, the United States finds itself facing multiple crises – a seemingly out-of-control pandemic, a deep economic recession, rampant inequality, and a popular reckoning with racism – with a polarizing and unpopular president at the helm. Can policymakers mount the bold response needed to return the US to a position of global leadership, or is America’s strategic decline now inevitable?

Godotists at Project Syndicate suddenly discover a problem as if looking at the charts since our last default was too much work.  Their prescription? More Godotism.