A rare bit of positive news on the global warming front: oil demand topped out in developed economies and emerging economies are increasingly fighting both internal combustion engines and single use plastics.
Read more...China has more of a glass jaw than most economics commentators thought. But how is Trump’s trade war likely to progress?
Read more...The US and China are even more visibly at odds than usual.
Read more...Markets have more reason than usual to be jumpy.
Read more...Although recycling is far from a viable solution to the world’s plastic problem, even these inadequate efforts are lacking, as press accounts from last week of corruption in the UK recycling industry, and Japan’s lag in implementing even the limited plastic reduction measures undertaken elsewhere reveal.
Read more...Why Trump’s trade deals could wind up being a negative for employment.
Read more...The dollar still rules. What could make that change?
Read more...Now that China has banned imports of plastic waste for recycling, US plastic waste exports to southeast Asia surge.
Read more...Trump disses China in a big way by giving Taiwan quasi-recognition through an arms sale.
Read more...In winning the trade battle with China, Trump may lose the war against inflation.
Read more...Working through the implications of China’s ever-rising energy needs.
Read more...Why on current trajectories, China (and the US) are toast.
Read more...China throws some money at banks to offset the effects of its deleveraging initiative.
Read more...Believe it or not, many top Chinese officials are impressed with Trump’s game so far.
Read more...Is extreme antiglobalism the doctrine that undergirds many of Trump’s actions?
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