Policymakers should not have been caught off guard by surging prices and shortages of goods and labor. Practically the entire post-pandemic agenda is built around policies that stoke demand and discourage work, making supply-side constraints entirely predictable. Surging inflation, skyrocketing energy prices, production bottlenecks, shortages, plumbers who won’t return your calls – economic orthodoxy has just run smack into a wall of reality called “supply.” Demand matters too, of course. If people wanted to buy half as much as they do, today’s bottlenecks and shortages would not be happening. But the US Federal Reserve and Treasury have printed trillions of…

My pen has never failed me as an intellectual asset, but writing a tribute to Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, a retired professor, is definitely a challenging task considering the multi-sided and multi-level perspectives that his personality and unique leadership present to us. I shall therefore delicately navigate my thoughts savoring the flavor from this mercurial man of machismo, a blue-blooded academic cum diplomat colossus who now coordinates activities of government from the center, where leadership is subjected to the heat of our multiplicity and diversity as a people. A popular coach, Vince Lombardi once said, leaders are made not born. Earlier,…