Business Press Suddenly and Widely Reporting Damage Done by Trump Economic Policies
As the wheels start coming off the Trump economy, the president shows no sign of changing course.
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Trump Tariffs Plunge Local NYC Businesses Into Uncertainty
A look at the damage being done by Trump tariffs, though the eyes of small business operators in New York City.
Read more...Charting the Uncharted: The (Un)intended Consequences of Oil Sanctions and Dark Shipping
An estimate of the magnitude of dark-shipped oil suggests that removing sanctions would raise, not lower, oil prices.
Read more...“SOTU” Reactions: Business Press Turning on Trump as Tariffs Whack Markets, Look Set to Increase Inflation, Approval Falls and Even Republicans Getting Restive
Despite the Republican applause during Trump’s State of the Union speech, the business press is sounding alarms.
Read more...New York Fed’s Measure of “Inflation Persistence” Nixes Friday’s Idea that YoY PCE Inflation Cooled, Using Same Data
Inflation Whack-A-Mole: price pressures shifted from housing to non-housing services and core goods.
Read more...Jane D’Arista on How the Failure of Global Finance Is Systemic
Jane D’Arista describes the internationalization of finance and how is has produced not just crises but fundamental economic distortions
Read more...US Secondary Sanctions “Have Seriously Damaged” Russia-China Bilateral Cooperation
Russian experts say US secondary sanctions are damaging Russia-China commerce. But their solutions don’t seem to be close to implementation.
Read more...America First Deepens World Stagnation
Quelle surprise! America First is another leg down in the developing-country-unfriendly policies the Collective West has pursued.
Read more...Can Europe Resist Concessions to Russia in Trump’s Ukraine Agreement?
An uber neocon contends that Europe has found substitutes for Russian energy and so can and will increase sanctions on Russia.
Read more...Minority Reports: How Endowment Effect Would Make Ukraine Mineral Deal as a Tar Baby; Brian Berletic on US Preserving USAID Regime Change Capabilities; John Helmer on Shambolic US Conduct of Ukraine Negotiations
Challenging mainstream and prevailing independent media views on Trump’s plans for Russia and Ukraine and the US role in the world.
Read more...The Recent Weakness in the German Manufacturing Sector
A look at the fallen state of German manufacturing seems to understate the implications of the conditions it describes.
Read more...Guantánamo, Donald Trump’s “Immigrant Problem,” and the Rest of Us
Trump’s methods for dealing with immigrants with less than solid visa status are often cruel. That is almost certainly a feature, not a bug.
Read more...EU Consumers Don’t Trust US Goods: A Look into Trump’s Trade Deficit Claims
Why trade deficits can’t always be solved by price, as in tariffs or currency manipulation.
Read more...The Bazooka Diplomacy of Trump’s Tariffs
A look at theory and practice as far as tariffs are concerned, and what that means for Trump’s threats and plans.
Read more...Trump’s No-Prisoners Approach to Iran-China Oil Crackdown
The US plans further sanctions on intermediaries like tankers and broker that facilitate Iran oil sales to China. Will they work?
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