Longer-Dated Treasuries Sell Off Sharply, Increasing Interest Rates: The Exact Opposite of What Trump Says He Wants
Mr. Market, in the form of longer-dated Treasury yields, is not on board with the Trump tariff scheme.
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Trump Thinks Tariffs Can Bring Back the Glory Days of US Manufacturing. Here’s Why He’s Wrong
More on the false premise that Trump can restore the US as a manufacturing powerhouse.
Read more...‘We’re Turning Into a Dictatorship’: Trump Tariffs Seen as Ploy to Further Consolidate Power
Senator Chris Murphy called President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs “a political weapon designed to collapse our democracy.”
Read more...What Is Blackwater Founder, Erik Prince, Doing in Ecuador a Week Before the Country’s Presidential Elections?
Prince is making bank as a security advisor for US-friendly governments in Latin America while trying to raise funds for coups against less friendly ones.
Read more...Why America Is Acting This Way on Trade: A Globotics Shock, a Failed Social Policy, and Middle-Class Fury
An attempt to divine the political roots of Trump’s trade and tariff policies.
Read more...Blockbuster Deal Will Wipe Out $30 Billion in Medical Debt. Even Backers Say It’s Not Enough.
A program that purchased medical debt at a deep discount, while effective, still reinforces a predatory system.
Read more...Coffee Break: Across the Pond With the Starmer Government
Britain really needs a new government as the current Starmer government appears to be leading the country off a cliff with their policie
Read more...USDA Cuts Hit Small Farms as Trump Showers Billions on Big Farms
The dollars helped schools and food banks buy from small farmers, boosting the local food system.
Read more...Trump’s Tariffs Are Extremely Dumb, Just Not For The Reasons You Might Think
The massive Trump tariffs are a con on a global scale. Trump is not rejecting the corporate trade model. He’s weaponizing it.
Read more...Trump’s Non-Cooperative Game
Game theorists do not take a kind view of how Trump is going about things.
Read more...Coffee Break: The Powell Memo Kills American Science, Driving While Nonwhite Is Hazardous, and Science Can Recover but It Will Take Patience and Persistence.
Can medical science recover from the Powell memo and Project 2025 via slow science?
Read more...Why Does the US Want Everyone’s Biometric Data (Regardless of Who Is in the White House)?
And can it be trusted with it? (rhetorical question)
Read more...Medicare Advantage Is Covering More and More Americans − Some Because They Don’t Get to Choose
Another layer of the ongoing campaign to get more Americans to use private and generally inferior Medicare Advantage over Traditional Medicare
Read more...Another Trump Big Lie: “Reciprocal Tariffs”
Further discussion of the delustions and misrepresentations of the Trump tariffs.
Read more...Iran Lacks the Leverage For a Fair Deal With the US
The US seems intent on bludgeoning Iran into a very unfavorable agreement.
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