Trump’s win highlights popular anger in the US, Japan, and Europe over the economy despite high stock prices and low unemployment
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Friday, December 6, 2024
Trump, Tariffs, Exchange Rates, and the Strong Dollar Problem: The Message of Elections in the US and Japan
Topics: Currencies, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Japan, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:09 am | No Comments »
Links 12/6/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 91 Comments »
“Bad Neighbour, Worse Trade Partner”: Would Mexico Be Better Off Without Canada?
If one of the presumed goals of president elect Donald Trump’s first round of tariff threats was to sow discord and division among Washington’s USMCA partners, it’s working like a dream.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 6 Comments »
Why Did the French Government Fall and What Happens Next?
Some detail on the French government crisis and what the next moves may be.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Europe, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:50 am | 14 Comments »
Data Centers Are Sending Global Electricity Demand Soaring
The International Energy Agency forecasts that data center demand for energy will more than double by 2026, with AI the big driver.
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:20 am | 7 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/5/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; UnitedHealthcare assassination: More details emerge; Boeing dropped a satellite, says new whistleblower; Nietzsche’s typewriter ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 76 Comments »
Murder and Social Murder: The Case of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson
Outside his family., friends, and close colleagues, not many tears are being shed over the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson.
Topics: Health care, Income disparity, Legal, Moral hazard, Regulations and regulators, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:03 am | 179 Comments »
Links 12/5/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 197 Comments »
How Right-Wing Media Is Like Improv Theater
New establishment sore-loserdom: trying to discredit right-wing messaging as like comedy theater, when the joke was running Kamala.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 47 Comments »
Experiencing Natural Disasters Increases Partisan Disagreement on Climate Change
Those experiencing a climate-change-induced disaster wind up having more polarized beliefs about the role of human action.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:30 am | 8 Comments »
NATO Pledges Urgent Support for Ukraine’s Battered Infrastructure
NATO messaging about “helping” Ukraine is become even more divorced from reality.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:51 am | 38 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/4/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot dead in Midtown Manhattan; DNC race begins ; UAW cuts off pay from striking staffers ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 109 Comments »
Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:08 am | 41 Comments »
Links 12/4/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 205 Comments »
Politics and Medicine, Medicine and Politics
On the long-standing US conflict between freedom and the rise in the scientific and professional practice of medicine, with that, authority
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Privatization, Regulations and regulators, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:47 am | 24 Comments »