Euan Taylor

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One off the greatest if not the greatest swim races of all time.

Lack of investment will do that to you!

Trump increases tariffs further to fund ICE operations...

The process will continue until currency weakening forces a change in policy. Trump's weakening of USD buys China more time. But already reports that Chinese tourists are buying fewer luxuries on holidays maybe suggest time is running out faster for Yuan.

Economics with Chinese Characteristics:

Large parts of business can't operate with low demand. And are going bankrupt. But the demand by Beijing to hit growth targets funnels more money into the system. This doesn't save all firms but does result in firms being revived shortly after going under!

OTOH

US Tariffs become symbolic of what is fiscally required to let the wealthy have a tax break.

High tariffs (anywhere) become a symbol for inequality and cushioning of the rich.

This post is one of the main reasons that Lions tours are only every 4 years.

(I am sure that I heard someone proposing more frequent Lions tours!)

Crypto is a means of evading taxes, facilitating crime, expropriating money from gullible investors and transferring it to the less gullible. It's an interesting piece of computer science, maybe, and affords some anecdotes to use for teaching monetary economics and finance.

Very few of my friends were posting when I eventually stopped using FB. It wasn't just that fluff was taking over my feed but that my feed had withered to almost nothing.

Trump demands that supporters have faith in the process.

(Tells GOP that he'll cut their funding if they break ranks.)

And yet there were 2 events on Friday. The revisions and the firing of BLS chief. Both weaken dollar.

I would actually predict higher volatility for usd rather than any sustained drop at this point in time.

OK, what the hell. I'll do this until i get bored or just run out of ideas:

1 Like = 1 Cold War opinion. Spiciness may vary.

This is inherently built into the UN as its membership comprises states.

The only exception would be UNSC sanctioned use of force. This is normally vetoed in practice.

A graph of US office construction shrinking from $60B to $28B

Data released yesterday shows real US office construction continues to sink lower & lower and is now approaching levels not seen since the worst of the Great Recession

Remote work, slower hiring, and high interest rates all continue to weigh on the sector

Ah the Battle of Stirling Bridge!

Trump wants a weak dollar one day and a strong dollar the next. Try building a strategy around that.

Dems strategy seems to be a course correction post GOP. They are the ones that clean up but are then only defined by being the antidote to whatever GOP mess was left!

While the Trump administration politicising economic statistics is a further step down the authoritarian road, it doesn't mean ordinary people won't be able to recognise a downturn in the real economy (most people aren't following BLS economic releases, they are experiencing prices in the shops).

He'll do it and USA will have to face the consequences.

The question is whether Trump will be made accountable and that is unlikely.

Higher taxes and higher wages. Leading to reduction in gini.

Also I can't see how house prices stay as high as interest rates probably higher. I say probably higher as actions of USA and China allow interest rates to remain lower for longer than they would in this environment.

We are in a period of significant transition. US has created a void.

The same people that bemoan male loneliness seem also to be against getting cars out of streets because people are too successful in congregating and having parties outside of bars, restaurants and cafes!

Again, Trump is like covid without the pandemic!

Eventually - it probably will for a centre right party.

That centre right party might not be the Tories.

The American Model required a foundation of political stability and state capacity to enable technological innovation and economic growth.

Destabilise the politics by hollowing out the state and you destroy technological advantages and economic prosperity

This is a good one- ill give it a pop

The truth that identity is complex is not helpful to those that wish to simplify a hatred of the other to advance themselves.

A rejection of the past of the British Empire and Britain's role in the EU.

Brits may not have children abroad without risking their image of themselves as British (by being able to pass their own citizenship onto their children).

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True. I am just trying to avoid making any predictions.

Problem will come at some point in future if UK develops a mass market car and is restricted.