Economic Principals set out to write about the Electoral College after the Supreme Court’s decision last week concerning the matter of Chiafalo vs. Washington – an unsuccessful attempt in 2016 to politic within the Electoral College in order to avoid the election of Donald Trump as President. EP became convinced he should first read Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace (Yale, 2020), by Matthew Klein and Michael Pettis.

He couldn’t do both. Back next week.