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Europe Warns Of An Upcoming “Trade Apocalypse”
Europe Warns Of An Upcoming “Trade Apocalypse” As European officials struggle to do everything they can to save the WTO, which appears headed for an all-but-certain demise thanks to President Trump’s aggressive trade policies, EU leaders have apparently circulated an “internal memo” drafted by the European Commission that accuses the US of deliberately instigating the […]
Things Just Went Nuclear In Our Trade War With China, And A Giant Shockwave Is About To Hit The U.S. Economy
Things Just Went Nuclear In Our Trade War With China, And A Giant Shockwave Is About To Hit The U.S. Economy It is difficult to find the words to describe just how serious America’s trade war with China is becoming. As you will see below, the two largest economies on the entire planet are on […]
Global Stocks Dive On Fears Of “Irreversible” Trade War; Italian Bonds, Turkish Lira Tumble
Global Stocks Dive On Fears Of “Irreversible” Trade War; Italian Bonds, Turkish Lira Tumble Bulletin Headline Summary from RanSquawk: Trump is said to be planning new restrictions on tech exports to China PBoC says they are to cut the re-lending rate for SME loans by 50bps, following the RRR cut over the weekend Looking ahead, […]
Is “America First” Hurting Global Energy Relations?
Is “America First” Hurting Global Energy Relations? Throughout history the strong bond between the United States and Europe, arguably the world’s most important alliance, has been decisive within the international arena. Massive migration from the ‘old world’ to the ‘new’ during the past centuries has been the reason for sharing important norms and values such […]
Trump’s Doomsday Gamble in China Trade War
Trump’s Doomsday Gamble in China Trade War President Trump dramatically resumed a trade war footing this week with Beijing, threatening to impose tariffs on virtually all imported Chinese goods to the US. After earlier negotiations this month appeared to avert a clash, the Trump administration is back to full trade war mode. With fiery language, […]
Here’s 21 Trillion Reasons To Question The Role Of Government In America
Here’s 21 Trillion Reasons To Question The Role Of Government In America The U.S. military budget dwarfs every other country on the planet combined. Do you know how much the Pentagon spent between 1998 and 2015 that is “unaccounted for”? TWENTY-ONE TRILLION DOLLARS $21,000,000,000,000 Where did it go? No one knows…it’s “unaccounted for”. The role […]
How the US, Under Obama, Created Europe’s Refugee Crisis
How the US, Under Obama, Created Europe’s Refugee Crisis The current US President, Donald Trump, claimed on June 18th, that Germany’s leadership, and the leadership in other EU nations, caused the refugee-crisis that Europe is facing: “The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in […]
Oil Companies and Lobbyists Say They’re Ready To Solve Climate Change. Check The Fine Print.
Oil Companies and Lobbyists Say They’re Ready To Solve Climate Change. Check The Fine Print. On Wednesday, former senators Trent Lott (R-MS) and John Breaux (D-LA) announced, with a big public relations blitz, a new campaign, Americans for Carbon Dividends, to address the threat of climate change. The effort is being heralded as a breakthrough by some […]
The World Transformed and No One in America Noticed
The World Transformed and No One in America Noticed The world transformed and nobody in the West noticed. India and Pakistan have joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The 17 year-old body since its founding on June 15, 2001 has quietly established itself as the main alliance and grouping of nations across Eurasia. Now it has […]
Rig Count Falls As U.S. Oil Output Flatlines
Rig Count Falls As U.S. Oil Output Flatlines Baker Hughes reported another dip in the number of active oil and gas rigs in the United States today. Oil and gas rigs decreased by 7 rigs, according to the report, with the number of oil rigs decreasing by 1, and the number of gas rigs decreasing […]
We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture
We Subsidize the Wrong Kind of Agriculture Summer: the season of barbecues, baseball games, and backyard fun. It’s also the time of year when the American farming industry comes into full swing producing the crops we hold near and dear. The pastoral ideal of golden fields of corn and wheat is what comes to mind […]
OPEC “Deal” Ends With Output Confusion, Sets Stage For “Deal Unraveling”
OPEC “Deal” Ends With Output Confusion, Sets Stage For “Deal Unraveling” Just 24 hours after OPEC appeared on the edge of splintering, Iran seemed to cave and in a deal that was described as a victory for everyone, OPEC member states and Russia provided a vague assurance they would boost output by striving to return […]
Singapore, Trade and Geopolitics
Singapore, Trade and Geopolitics The Western media was incredulous. The Donald had disregarded diplomacy, scuttled out of the G7 meeting in Canada without endorsing the G7 agreement, and ended up shaking hands with a previously avowed enemy in Singapore. The formally leisurely pace of global diplomacy, where all is pre-agreed before the photo-op showing unanimity […]
The Eagle, the Dragon, and the Bear
The Eagle, the Dragon, and the Bear Does Trump recognize the limits of US power? Trump’s new world order comes straight from The Godfather. There are three global powers: the US, Russia, and China. None of these powers can militarily defeat either of the other two, and even an alliance among two of them would […]
The Murder of Julian Assange
The Murder of Julian Assange It was a fool’s errand. On the day Donald Trump was elected his supporters asked him to pardon the founder and frontman of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. They flooded social media demanding Assange be allowed to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London without arrest and extradition to the United States. Stone silence […]
