“Are they just playing insane or are they actually insane?” Amid all the economic chaos and fallout triggered by Trump’s tariffs barrage and with markets continuing to slide even after…
Yves here. We’re again and again seeing the Trump Administration use the same radical yet so far effective playbook: deny Congressionally mandated payments under all sorts of programs by smashing…
Yves here. This post goes carefully through ownership and trends in holding of Treasuries. It concludes that official holders, as in governments, look likely to further reduce their stakes, but…
Most commentators have been whipsawed by the Trump tariff climbdown along with the wild stock and Treasury market moves, and so have been focusing on why Trump relented and immediate…
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Yves here. Longstanding readers of this site will likely recognize the name Public Citizen. Founded by Ralph Nader, Public Citizen has regularly punched well above its weight, particularly in the…
Yves here. With all of the DOGE destruction, tariff freakouts, and continuing assaults on civil liberties and due process, many other damaging Trump actions have gone under the radar. One…
Yves here. It would be clearly be preferable if data center energy hogs proved to be less greedy in their needs than they now anticipate. By Tsvetana Paraskova, a writer…
Yves here. Yours truly has been of the view that the most coherent explanation for Trump’s actions is that represent an extreme need to dominate, and other considerations are at…
The historian Christopher Lasch diagnosed the ills of late capitalism well and his books continue to be relevant. Three are briefly discussed here: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in…