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The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.

Greg Ip: "Capitalism in America is starting to look like China."

Trump Bid for Cut of Nvidia, AMD Revenue Risks ‘Dangerous World’ Even in an administration that has repeatedly pushed the legal limits of using economic statecraft to reshape the global business landscape, a new deal with two tech giants is raising alarm bells amon...

When phrases like "new and dangerous" and "crony capitalism state" appear in a Bloomberg story, you know there are alarms ringing among investors.

🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Las políticas de Trump enfrían el verano turístico en Estados Unidos Las Vegas, Miami y Houston son solo algunos de los mercados turísticos que se han visto afectados por la caída de los visitantes internacionales

Trump ha dado con sus políticas un duro golpe al apetito por visitar esta nación. Los extranjeros han preferido buscarse nuevos destinos para este verano, lo que ha provocado preocupación en algunos sectores y ha enfriado economías locales

And BTW, US manufacturing employment has fallen to new depths under Trump (see charts below on both absolute level and as share of total non-farm employment).

Opinion | Trump’s Trade Representative: Why We Remade the Global Order

US deindustrialization was not result of trade deficits. It can no longer be reversed. Tariffs/investment promises will not do much for manufacturing. Bretton Woods was a global agreement not an extortion racket. Other than that, nothing wrong with this piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/o...

One more time: everything he does ends up benefiting China always.

Short answer: it is absolutely not worth holding that high ground.

The guy who has been anti-vax for two decades without any scientific evidence to back it up, promised to Congress that he wasn’t anti-vax, got confirmed, and then immediately started doing anti-vax things

He's promising to protect the integrity of the data by firing statisticians who follow established methods of data collection and processing whenever those methods yield numbers that don't please the boss.

If Hamas freed all the hostages they still have and surrendered their arms and power the war would be over in that exact minute. Curiously, not a single person who posts these things demands anything of that terrorist group, they only blame Israel.

Author of Texas Abortion Ban Denies He Paid for Abortions Amid Bombshell Allegations from Former Exotic Dancer Capriglione authored Texas’ “trigger ban,” which banned abortion when Roe v. Wade was overturned. He announced he wouldn’t seek reelection.

NEW bombshell allegations from the Texas Legislature today. The author of Texas’ abortion “trigger ban” has been accused by a former exotic dancer of paying for abortions. He has denied the claims and threatened to sue the outlet that ran them. More:

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"If you look at page 1 of the tariff handbook, it says: Don't tariff inputs. It's the simplest way to make it harder—more expensive—for Americans to do business. Any factory around the world can get the steel, copper, and aluminum it needs without paying a 50% upcharge, except an American factory."

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With the Big, Beautiful Bill, You Can Now Sponsor a Billionaire of Your Choosing "My fellow Americans: When you pay taxes, which would you rather support? Cancer research, or getting one guy a really big boat?" @petridishes writes:

"My fellow Americans: When you pay taxes, which would you rather support? Cancer research, or getting one guy a really big boat?" @petridishes.bsky.social writes:

For years we have begged and demanded to the GOP leadership to denounce extremists instead of embracing them. And now bozos like this guy prefer that we embrace the Democratic Party extremists. The Dem Party leadership should reject Mamdani, just like we asked the GOP leadership to reject trump.

China is racing towards the 22nd century.

We are steering back towards the 19th century.

Stanley Fischer, Who Spread the Macroeconomic Gospel, Dies at 81 Stanley Fischer, a professor and practitioner of macroeconomics who helped guide central banks in two countries, Israel and the US, and mentored a younger generation of economic decision-makers, has d...

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Jack Posobiec: Ask a liberal if birthright citizenship should apply to white South Africans And watch what happens next

How is this even a hard question? Yes, the constitution applies to everyone. Sorry if that answer didn't occur to you

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The 2025 Papal Conclave (Part 1) As a political junkie who loves everything and anything about elections all over the world I have always been very interested in the process of election of a new Pope, given the historical…

Without further ado, here's part I: medium.com/winds-of-cha...

A final clarification: I might use terms like liberals & conservatives, but that's just short-hand. Actors like cardinals cannot be neatly classified in those broad camps, they are actually multidimensional. But some roughly defined currents can be detected. (4)

I do this from the merely political analysis point of view, of an institution that is more than 2,000 years old. I am not Catholic - so I try not to express preferences about doctrinal positions of the Catholic Church. I do have preferences about the impact of a Pope in a global scene (3)

Here are the first two parts of it -- the first one describing the main dynamics and factors from my point of view, the second one my own list of candidates based on this analysis. A third part will include my experiment with AI to simulate a conclave! (2)

As a political junkie who loves everything and anything about elections I've always been very interested in the process of election of a new Pope. Back in 2005 I created a spreadsheet with potential candidates that was well received, so I did it again in 2013. For 2025 I expanded the analysis (1)

Once the state is captured by disordered discourse, even a hint of dissent against the group think is seen as a hostile act.

Trump says brief economic pain is worth long-term gain. Will Americans agree? The Trump administration wants Americans to deal with short-term economic turmoil, including job losses and inflation, on the promise of better times ahead.

“Businesses are shaking their heads. They can’t quite figure out what’s happening in Washington.” What’s happening is exactly what Trump said he’d do. If those folks voted for him, they weren’t listening. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

(WSJ) - The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International Chamber of Commerce warned.

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Under Trump, U.S. Hegemony Is Entering Full Predatory Mode Trump is taking the U.S. into full predatory mode, abandoning even paying lip service to the liberal international order. Should the world worry?

Tariffs on US neighbors & cutting off military aid to Ukraine.

These are the coercive measures you expect from a predatory hegemon

This, compounded by the fact that he also does not understand the idea of iterative games. To him, everything is a one-off deal, and the idea that you need to build trust for the sake of future deals is, as far as I can tell, unknown to him.

Trump has basically declared war on every constituency in America, including his own base, if anything the smallholders (the big fish of the small ponds) that make the heart and soul of the GOP are the ones most likely to get fucked up by tariffs and trade crashing