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.
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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?
Read more...Who Is Driving the Global Privatization of Domestic Infrastructure?
An otherwise informative post about the extent and hazards of infrastructure sales misses who the real bad actors are.
Read more...Europe’s Challenge and Opportunity in the Trump Era: Building Coalitions of the Willing
How some ideas for bolstering Europe’s position in the Trump era are not as well thought through as they ought to be.
Read more...Global Value Chains in a World of Uncertainty and Automation
Global supply chain expansion slowed to crawl speed after the 2008 crisis. But that did not translate into much reshoring.
Read more...Trump’s Shock Doctrine: Uncertainty and the Repudiation of Contracts
How Trump’s economic revolution and the uncertainty it is creating are already wreaking havoc.
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