Markets Edgy Over China, Italy Budget Staredown, Saudis, Brexit, Too Much Private Debt, Strained Valuations….
Markets have more reason than usual to be jumpy.
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Plastic Watch: Recycling Woes
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...Marshall Auerback: A Full Employment Economy? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Why Trump’s trade deals could wind up being a negative for employment.
Read more...The Continuing Dominance of the Dollar
The dollar still rules. What could make that change?
Read more...Waste Watch: US Dumps Plastic Rubbish in Southeast Asia
Now that China has banned imports of plastic waste for recycling, US plastic waste exports to southeast Asia surge.
Read more...Trump Escalates Tensions With China Through Taiwan Weapons Deal
Trump disses China in a big way by giving Taiwan quasi-recognition through an arms sale.
Read more...Does the U.S. Have the Ingredients to Win a Trade War?
In winning the trade battle with China, Trump may lose the war against inflation.
Read more...The Unforeseen Consequences Of China’s Insatiable Oil Demand
Working through the implications of China’s ever-rising energy needs.
Read more...Gaius Publius: There Will Be No Chinese Century
Why on current trajectories, China (and the US) are toast.
Read more...China Pumps $74B Into Banks Amid Credit Crisis
China throws some money at banks to offset the effects of its deleveraging initiative.
Read more...Financial Times: Chinese Officials “Awed” by Trump’s “Skill as a Strategist and Tactician”
Believe it or not, many top Chinese officials are impressed with Trump’s game so far.
Read more...John Feffer: Trump Doctrine as Kamikaze Antiglobalism
Is extreme antiglobalism the doctrine that undergirds many of Trump’s actions?
Read more...Marshall Auerback: Trump’s Trade War with China Will Cause an Economic Catastrophe — Here’s a Better Solution
How to impose trade rules that will bring jobs back to the US in a much more surgical manner than a costly and potentially self-defeating trade wars.
Read more...Europe Isolates China Trade Cheat
The “every man for himself” game of responding to Trump’s trade threats is working against China’s hope to team up with Europe.
Read more...EU Calls Trump’s Bluff on Auto Tariffs as Trump Tries Dead on Arrival WTO Exit Plan
The EU is neither happy with nor cowed by Trump’s latest trade threat.
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