The Grumpy Economist: COVID On Campus

The headline from the recently released 2026 Medicare Trustees Report was that the Medicare Health Insurance (HI) Trust Fund would exhaust its reserves in 2033—1 year before the Social Security trust funds were also projected to meet the same fate.

He was disliked, overlooked, indispensable—and right about economic security.

Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester are seen as innovation powerhouses but there’s a city we don’t mention