It seems more than a little short-sighted for Team Trump to profess so much desire to bring production and manufacturing to the US, without apparently talking to many, let alone…
There are reports that DOGE is going global as the tech industry and other oligarchs the world over use their politicians to reframe austerity and privatization through the lens of…
Conor here: I’m picking up an overarching theme here from Team Trump. By Kevin Hardy, who covers business, labor and rural issues for Stateline from the Midwest. Cross posted from…
Yves here. Brian Berletic makes a point of saying, and documenting, how in the foreign policy arena, Trump represents continuity of agenda rather than the sort of break his backers…
Yves here. I wish this post had provided a more in-depth discussion of what game theory says about the strategy, if you can call it that, employed by Trump. Perhaps…
Part the First: The Powell Memo started it all. Written by Lewis Powell, then a Richmond corporate lawyer for Big Tobacco and later Supreme Court Justice, for the United States…
As China announced 34% retaliatory tariffs overnight, triggering a further swoon in European stocks and US equity futures, experts are grappling with which sectors and companies will be hit particularly…
And can it be trusted with it? (rhetorical question) The United States Secretary of Homeland Security spent much of last week visiting countries in Latin America, instructing their respective governments…
Yves here. We feel compelled to post regularly on the insurer grift known as Medicare Advantage, in light of the massive ad barrage around annual enrollment time. The fact that…
Yves here. Rajiv Sethi unpacks the bogus branding of and justifications for Trump’s tariffs. Don’t get me started on Liberation Losers’ Day. Sethi mentions the omission of trade in services…