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How to Pay for Climate Change?

November 8, 2023
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

The following essay on “How to pay for climate change” was written by J. Paul Horne, a member of the GIC’s board of directors, at the invitation of David R. Kotok, founder of Cumberland Advisors and GIC board member. It triggered various responses including the subsequent point and counterpoint with Bob Bunting, a member of the GIC and CEO of The Climate Adaptation Center in Sarasota, FL which has made presentations to the GIC. The link to the IEA’s new global energy analysis of climate change is included at the end of this report. The GIC invites further comments about climate change.

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Why the dollar is the world’s reserve currency

February 10, 2023
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

In response to Nouriel Roubini’s recent op-ed on why the USD was threatened by the likes of China, Russia and Saudi Arabia, GIC Board Member, Paul Horne published a letter in the financial times.

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America has to end its toxic tax debate

September 19, 2022
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

Paul Horne, GIC Board Member and Active Independent International Market Economist, penned a letter in Financial Times in response to a recent Market Insights column, “A painful era of ‘spend but don’t tax’ faces investors.”

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French Politics in 2022

May 11, 2022
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

GIC Board Member, J. Paul Horne, an Independent International Market Economist, wrote about France’s 2022 elections and the current political-economic-fiscal situation.

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Will US Treasury yields hurt private equity boom?

September 14, 2020
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

GIC Board Member, J Paul Horne discusses Federal Reserve Strategy and Private Equity, originally in a letter to the Financial Times on August 31, 2020.

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College of Central Bankers series: Court’s implicit rejection of basic EU tenet would give cause for concern

August 4, 2019
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

GIC Board Member, J Paul Horne’s report on the EU and the European Central Bank was published by The Financial Times and is used with permission.

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College of Central Bankers series: Investors need to be aware of the other bond bubble

June 20, 2019
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

GIC Board Member, J Paul Horne’s report on European and Japanese government bonds was published by The Financial Times and is used with permission.

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Europe’s Parliamentary Elections Roil Europe’s Economic Outlook

June 14, 2019
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

GIC Board Member, J Paul Horne’s report on the results of the European Parliamentary elections was published by The European Institute at the University of Maryland (www.europeaninstitute.org/ ) and is used with permission.

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Italy’s 2019 Budget Worries the EU and Global Markets

October 26, 2018
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

GIC Board Member, J Paul Horne’s report on the on the implications of the Italian budget battle was published by the Bertelsmann Foundation in cooperation with The European Institute at the University of Maryland.

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Brexit Accelerates Business Exodus

August 15, 2017
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

Banks, insurers, businesses and European Union (EU) agencies based in the UK are accelerating their moves to assure full access in the EU, the world’s largest financial-economic area.

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Of Politics and the Euro

April 29, 2017
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

GIC board member J. Paul Horne shares his comments on implications of the first round of France’s presidential election on 23 April and the likely, but not certain, outcome of the run-off between Macron and Le Pen on 7 May. The report was published by The European Institute, a Washington-based think tank promoting trans-Atlantic relations that […]

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Keep ’em Guessing, Like in the Old Days

February 4, 2014
Paul Horne
JPaul Horne

GIC Board Member Paul Horne argues that the markets today are "babied."

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