Interesting that you assume I am blaming low productivity on the workers (which I never said), rather than on the failure of governments to invest adequately in infrastructure, public health, law enforcement, ease of business, and public transportation. The prejudice is your own.

Yesterday, we broke ground for the construction of Portland's first plastic redemption centre, slated to open early next year. We continue to build towards making it convenient and lucrative for everyone to join the mission to "put plastic in its place". instagram.com/p/DB15z1ON1jo/…

Travelled all the way to Portland last week for a groundbreaking for a new recycling redemption centre. And when I get there, a man on the site is already breaking the ground!!! Wanted to have strong words with him but he had a pick-ax in his hands.

The United States and, as a consequence, the world are entering a new and worrying era. In what will be a far more challenging global economy, domestic economic management now becomes more consequential and small country governments need to be focused on managing it well.

As I was saying yesterday. Now multiply the damage to this car by the number of cars that will be similarly affected (even if they don't leave the evidence behind that this one did).

I'm not sure this branding was run by the marketing department. #Singapore

In Singapore, you leave your umbrella out on the sidewalk while you go inside to shop. And, apparently, when you come out, even tho it's raining, your umbrella is still there.

This is a popular dish here in Busan in South Korea. And it's the perfect thing for a hungry belly. I took one look at it and quickly lost my appetite.

Exactly my problem with the "pivot" narrative. It suggests that macroeconomic policy up to now hasn't been about economic growth, which it very much has been. But growth doesn't show up in one year or two after conditions change. The belief/decision/invest/production lag is long.

Black Winter Soldier Who said anything about trickle down? Not me.

It's a pretty fancy country when even the pedestrian crosswalks are dual lane. Busan, South Korea.

This country was poorer than Jamaica when we gained our independence. How we have wasted a lifetime. #Busan #SouthKorea

4,000 attendees over six days, each day from 8am to 11pm, at the conference in Busan, Korea, and on not even one occasion did any of the delegation find a washroom that had run out of paper towels. Organisational capacity!