Monday, June 30, 2025

Fed Not Buying Trump Administration Economic Snake Oil but Stands Largely Pat While Depicting Higher Inflation, Lower Growth Prospects

The Fed has noticed that Trump’s policies are chilling growth while stoking inflation, but is not yet ready to react strongly.

Links 3/20/2025

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

How an Israeli-US Startup Wants to Make Geoengineering Profitable

Forget contrails. Here’s a geoengineering initiative that should give cause for pause.

Is the Endgame with Iran About to Begin?

An update on US escalatory noises about Iran.

Will Russia Expand Its Ground Campaign Into Sumy, Dniepropetrovsk, and/or Kharkov Regions?

Where might Russia take the Ukraine conflict next?

Links 3/19/2025

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. 

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, […]

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.

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.

New York’s Economy Teeters on a Precipice

New York as an example of the effects of economic undertow created by the Trump Administration.

Links 3/18/2025

Caribbean Countries Blast US Plans to Sanction Cuban Medical Missions Around the World

While Cuba exports doctors to the world, the US exports sanctions.

IM Doc: Report from Flyover on the Democratic Party’s Self Destruction

The Democratic Party’s slow-motion suicide continues.