The Fed has noticed that Trump’s policies are chilling growth while stoking inflation, but is not yet ready to react strongly.
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Monday, June 30, 2025
Fed Not Buying Trump Administration Economic Snake Oil but Stands Largely Pat While Depicting Higher Inflation, Lower Growth Prospects
Topics: Dubious statistics, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Investment outlook, Macroeconomic policy, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 26 Comments »
Links 3/20/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 158 Comments »
Replacing Foreign Aid: A Macroeconomic Plan B for Ukraine (and Europe)
Some Serious Economists make an analytically desperate justification of Europe providing big-ticket economic assistance to Ukraine
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:26 am | 13 Comments »
How an Israeli-US Startup Wants to Make Geoengineering Profitable
Forget contrails. Here’s a geoengineering initiative that should give cause for pause.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post, Moral hazard, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management, Science and the scientific method, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 25 Comments »
Is the Endgame with Iran About to Begin?
An update on US escalatory noises about Iran.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Guest Post, Middle East
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:38 am | 42 Comments »
Will Russia Expand Its Ground Campaign Into Sumy, Dniepropetrovsk, and/or Kharkov Regions?
Where might Russia take the Ukraine conflict next?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 70 Comments »
Links 3/19/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 159 Comments »
A Strange “Peace” in the South Caucasus and the Encirclement of Iran
What to make of the proposed deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan as preparations for war continue and the West looks to destabilize Iran.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 8 Comments »
More on Trump Defiance of Court in Venezuela Deportation Case
Yves here. This post contains informative details on the ongoing row between Judge James Boasberg and the Department of Justice, which defied his order in a deportation of Venezuelans for the planes containing the detainees en route to El Salvador return to the US. The lawlessness of this Administration is stunning. First, as Judge Napolitano, […]
Topics: Guest Post, Legal, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:07 am | 46 Comments »
More IDF Depravity: Use of Palestinians as Human Shields
More systematic war crimes by the IDF, covered up as supposedly just a few outlier cases.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:08 am | 8 Comments »
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Last Dreadnoughts
Our warfare focused Coffee Break: The rise and likely fall of the aircraft carrier as the dominant capital ship in naval warfare.
Topics: Coffee Break, Guest Post
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 2:00 pm | 74 Comments »
New York’s Economy Teeters on a Precipice
New York as an example of the effects of economic undertow created by the Trump Administration.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 17 Comments »
Links 3/18/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 122 Comments »
Caribbean Countries Blast US Plans to Sanction Cuban Medical Missions Around the World
While Cuba exports doctors to the world, the US exports sanctions.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 15 Comments »
IM Doc: Report from Flyover on the Democratic Party’s Self Destruction
The Democratic Party’s slow-motion suicide continues.
Topics: Banana republic, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:55 am | 155 Comments »