Machinator

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

Quem é vivo sempre aparece 😆

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

The best thing EU diplomats can achieve now:

a) signal to China that a massive devaluation of the CNY would lead to EU retaliation - don't do it.
b) to pressure Beijing to lift consumption using the fiscal space in the central budget.
c) call the IMF for help on advice/coordination.

The consensus on Wall Street among savvy people paid millions to predict things was exactly what very low-information voters thought: "Trump can't mean what he says because that's ridiculous, what he'll really do is what I personally hope he does."

Alan Beattie crisply outlines the dark clouds headed for the global economy.

“The trading system needs buyers not sellers”

Neither stagflation/recession-hurling tariff-fest USA, nor demand black-hole China will provide it.

There won’t be enough demand to go around.

Tem aquelas contas que expõem o conteúdo de clickbait aqui? E para o Brasil? 🙏🏻

El Carretero (2021 - Remaster) Buena Vista Social Club · Buena Vista Social Club (25th Anniversary Edition) · Song · 2021

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I think the point the Italian gov is making is valid, but as you say, they are losing an opportunity here.

They could have tied the claim on citizenship to speak Italian and work or study for a while on Italy as part of the application, for instance. Many of them would remain in Italy then, I think

Italy restricts citizenship by descent Italy limits citizenship to those with a parent or grandparent born in the country, ending distant ancestry claims.

It's mainly because the explosion of applications from South America

euroweeklynews.com/2025/03/29/i...

The Sovereign Wealth Effect: America’s New Tool for Rebalancing the Global Trading System Intro

Michael McNair on trade and capital flows (and, most importantly, why they cannot be treated separately).

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Queria entender pq cotam tanto o Dino como candidato.

Imagina que trocará a mordomia do STF, gravata personalizada, cafezinho, Vossa Excelência, concordo com o relator, pela bucha que é ser candidato a presidente:

MBL, imprensa, comício nos cafundós, militantes, negociatas...

Ele caiu é pra cima

Worth taking a moment to mark how awful the FDP was for both Germany and Europe.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”

I hope you're right 🙏 since January there has been a lot of nice words and displays of unity but few doing if any

Also, weg mit der Schuldenbremse ohne Einschränkungen für Militärausgaben!

E muitos dizem que a Ucrânia foi burra e deveria ter aceitado as exigências da Rússia pq "não tem chance", enquanto gritam "resistir sempre" (obviamente contra os imperialistas "certos")

No futuro, ou já agora, o Lula vai ter se arrependido amargamente de ter concorrido de novo.

Perdeu toda a aura dele nessa.

Chinese exporters brace for 'rat race' in shift away from US Jeremy Fang, a sales officer at a Chinese aluminium products maker, is trying to export more to markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America to offset the U.S. tariffs' impact. The problem, he says, is that his competitors have the same idea.

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This Reuters article describes a process that my friends and former students who own or run manufacturing companies in China have been telling me about for years.

www.reuters.com/business/chi...

Donald Trump's economic masterplan

Interesting piece by Yanis Varoufakis, who is an opponent of Trump's policies in general but who nonetheless suspects that Trump has a more sophisticated understanding of global trade than most mainstream economists.

unherd.com/2025/02/why-...

Fascinating detail in an otherwise ... slightly scary thread. #ozonelayer

One Response to Trump’s Tariffs: Trade That Excludes the U.S. A growing number of countries, including American allies, are striking trade deals as the Trump administration erects a higher fence around its global commerce.

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Interesting NYT article that suggests that much of the world will respond to aggressive new US trade policies by trading more with each other and less with the US. This may be partly true, but it is a bit more complicated than that.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/b...

Good points here. Sanction and penalize the personalities. Musk obviously. Trump's family themselves. Theil.

😬 interesse geweckt

Amigo é coisa para se guardar do lado esquerdo do peito

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I would argue that if economists really are concerned about the fact that they have lost so much credibility, one solution might be to consider the conditions under which their Econ 101 models are wrong and "everyone else" with skin in the game might be right.

Case examples of Brazil over X and now Meta have shown that when judiciary and legislature show a firm hand, the rule of law, and threaten to take away these platforms user base which drive profitability - they soon buckle.

It's nuclear. It's possible to extract uranium even from seawater in case of a shortage (not cheap, but it's gotten cheaper)

Não tem como achar isso normal, isso só é normal em Estado falido

My controversial take: it is time to discuss seriously about banning social media that do not comply with standards set by law.