How ‘Dupes’, Fast Fashion and China’s Economic Slowdown Spell Disaster for the Luxury Sector
The luxury goods market is in bad shape, an indicator of how the moderately well off and “aspirational” shoppers are under income stress.
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NATO as the Fly in Russia’s Baltic Sea Soup
The West uses common, minor, and likely accidental damage to a few submarine cables to further militarize the Baltic Sea and harass the “shadow fleet.”
Read more...How Trump 2.0 Could Herald a New Age of Authoritarian Capitalism
To discuss: “Trump’s weaponisation of US power poses a threat to peace, prosperity and the planet.”
Read more...Michael Hudson: Trump on Greenland, Panama and Canada
Michael Hudson on the method in Trump’s seeming madness in laying claim to Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.
Read more...U.S. Sanctions on China’s Oil Firms Are Just the Beginning Under Trump
A discussion of some moves Trump is expected to take to try to contain China, starting with energy and avoiding use of the dollar.
Read more...Wanting More for BRICS Than BRICS Wants for Itself
More realistic takes on BRICS, including by Michael Hudson.
Read more...China’s Government Bond Market Sounding Loud Deflationary Alarm. Is the Japanification China Has Warded Off Finally Arriving?
China’s investors are in freakout mode about deflation risks. Can its government turn the fundamentals around?
Read more...Will Russia’s Alleged Downing of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight Overturn the Great Game Board in the Caucasus?
Azerbaijan president’s out of character condemnation of Moscow before facts are in points to changes on the horizon.
Read more...What Should Tesla’s Stock Be Worth? Automaker, Stagnating Vehicle Sales like GM & Ford, Getting Overtaken by Competitors, Losing Share in the Booming EV Market?
Tesla is now just ar mid-size automaker amid EV competition that is eating its lunch. What might realistic valuations mean for Musk’s clout?
Read more...Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, Antony Blinken, China, and the Idiocy of Tom Friedman
The unduly respected New York Times columnist Tom Friedman again plays ignorant American, here despite a visit to China.
Read more...Trump’s Push To Shut Down the Axis of Upheaval Starts With LNG
A new neocon scheme, reportedly with backing among incoming Trump officials, to bring Russia to its knees with improved energy sanctions.
Read more...Post Cold War Geopolitics Worse for Global South
How the US mismanaged its unipolar moment to the detriment of the Global South.
Read more...China’s Push for 7% Growth Faces Big Challenges
China plans to return to a higher level of growth. Are its targets attainable?
Read more...The US Is Left Out in the Cold as China and Russia Develop Arctic
RAND proposes familiar blunders to deal with rival powers’ partnership — one that Washington helped instigate.
Read more...“Anti-Western or Non-Western? The Nuanced Geopolitics of BRICS”
More on how much and what kind of influence BRICS might wield when it grows up.
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