Credit Trump for the irony of the year in a pair of comments on Truth Social. Comments of the Day Irony of the Year CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!! No one has tried harder than Trump to make the US an island. He wants production here, massive tariffs to stop imports, tariffs to balance the […]
Trump worked out a deal with the UK, a US trade surplus country. One Down, 199 to Go We have the first deal (with details to be worked out later). Please note Trump Announces “Breakthrough Trade Agreement” with U.K. Speaking from the Oval Office, Mr. Trump said a “breakthrough” deal with the U.K. would include “billions […]
The tariff sledgehammer has a role, but it’s a limited one. There’s an inherent tension in State-Corporate Capitalism. Proponents of the free market hold that any state Industrial Policy will fail because the State cannot pick the winners and losers as effectively as The Market. Yet Corporate Capitalism continually lobbies the State to lower interest rates and taxes, weaken the […]
Thousands of products that are made in China will soon start disappearing from store shelves in the United States. If a trade deal is not made with China very soon, the summer of 2025 will be “the summer of empty shelves”. According to the Trump administration, “U.S. goods imports from China in 2024 totaled $438.9 billion”. […]
What a Junior Engineer Can Teach Us About a Time When America Really Was Great We’re told we’ve never had it better. America and Americans are rich, they say. That wages are up, quality of life is high, and progress marches on. We all know that isn’t quite true, but it’s hard to pinpoint the […]
British farmers are pushing back, but the government is preparing large-scale culling of livestock toward the end of 2025 [Originally published in I-System TrendCompass] Over the last few years I’m noticing that the grocery stores where I buy my food are less and less supplied with certain foods, particularly organic meat and periodically milk and […]
In order to understand the magnitude of the position in which we find ourselves, we must first understand the magnitude of the deception and the machinery. We must look back at all of the components and contributing factors that may have seemed unrelated, but which we can see today are anything but. This means starting […]
Today the Fed is Gutting the Future of Gen-Z The Canadian left, which self-identifies as workers of-the-world-wobblies-ready-to-storm-any-barricade, last week elected a central banker whose activities over the past twenty years have systematically crushed the class they claim to support. Turns out that pretending to be a fierce fighter for the working class has cashed the […]
Numerous nations have issued unofficial travel advisory warnings to deter citizens from traveling to the United States under Donald Trump. The tensions between the US and Canada have been particularly bad for tourism. Statistics Canada reported a 23% decline in trips via car from the US this February, marking the second consecutive monthly decline, while […]