Whatever limited wisdom I have, Elizabeth, will certainly not stretch to trying to understand Donald Trump, nor what his various proclamations will do to the sharemarket.
I have a very basic view of the global and Australian economies. Fortunately, this pretty much ignores the political classes and focuses on real people.
Right now, according to the Worldometer website, there are about 8.2 billion of us on the planet. We live, we die, but from our first breath to our last, we are consuming goods and services. One way or another, as workers, business builders, taxpayers, child raisers, carers for parents, grandparents or other people, we also all make an economic contribution.
The number of us on the planet is quite extraordinary and growing rapidly – in fact, by about 80…