Tag: Economy
What Has Publicly Blaming Cyber Attacks on Governments Solved?
Blaming cyber attacks on governments has become routine, but has it resulted in accountability, punishment, or reduction in hostile cyber activities?
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Pipeline or a Pipedream: Israel, Turkey Hydrocarbon Conflict is Brewing in the Mediterranean
What seemed like a lucrative deal, with immense geopolitical significance from an Israeli point of view, now appears to be another extension of the wider Middle Eastern conflict.
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Remarks on the US-China “Trade Deal”
It’s not a trade deal but a means for Trump to back off his tariffs after realizing they harm US consumers instead of China.
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Why Is Trump the Only Candidate with a Budget Proposal?
Every presidential candidate ought to produce a basic outline of a federal discretionary budget to give taxpayers some idea of how they intend to spend.
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The Story of Trump’s Perilous Iran Escalation
The Trump assassination of major general Qasem Soleimani reflects regime change efforts that have taken a perilous turn.
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Neoliberal Economics Destroyed the Economy and the Middle Class
Perhaps economists will also come to the realization that they owe us accurate GDP accounting and not fanciful accounts that serve elite wealth in the financialized economy.
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Why War Deaths Increase After Wars
It would be more difficult for the US government to continually wage senseless wars if the estimated millions of dead received more attention.
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Is Foreign Policy Journal a Biased Source for Information?
The website Media Bias Fact Check accuses Foreign Policy Journal of biased reporting, but its accusation is what’s biased according to its own criteria.
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US Tariff Wars Penalize Chinese Development and African Futures
In the coming months, some of the worst collateral damage of US tariff wars will occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The adverse impact is likely to be aggravated by US protectionism, which shuns economic integration in Africa.
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What Globalism Did Was to Transfer the US Economy to China
The Fed can pump out more money to drive up financial asset prices, but it doesn’t drive up production because the jobs have been sent abroad.
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Tariff Damage Spreading in US, China within Target in H2 2019
In the second half of 2019, US economic prospects will soften, despite the Fed rate cut, whereas Chinese growth target is likely to prevail. It’s time to prepare for diminished global economic prospects in 2019-20.
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Economic Growth Comes from Consumer Saving, Not Spending
The Federal Reserve’s inflationary monetary policy perversely incentivizes consumer spending when what the economy needs for real growth is consumer saving.
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Are You Prepared for a Recession?
Contrary to what you might read in the New York Times and other establishment media, the US economy is not doing fine. Another Fed-caused bust is coming.
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Huge Gap between US Markets and International Trade
The current gap between US market highs and international economic realities is precipitating a global recession by 2020, given the current trends.
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New US-Sino Trade Truce: Tougher Talks, More Economic Damage
There is still a chance to salvage the US-China trade talks, but it would require a substantial reassessment of the US stance and objectives.
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The Longer the US Sino-Tariff Wars Go On, the Harder It Will Be to Undo the Damage
Compared to pre-2008 crisis levels, world economic growth has plummeted by half and is at risk of a long-term, hard-to-reverse stagnation.
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The State of the Economy
The Federal Reserve and plunge protection team will rig the markets for the mega-rich until the US dollar loses its role as world reserve currency.
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Oman Sets the Example for Governing Resource-Rich Economies in the Digital Age
Should government leaders from other resource-rich economies want to adapt to the fourth industrial revolution, they would do well to follow Oman’s lead.
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Trump’s Futile Quest for a Renminbi Plaza Accord
China’s monetary policy is not as US media reports claim, and the negative consequences of Trump’s tariffs are about to hit American consumers.
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The Tariff Issue
The tariffs will not bring back jobs, but will reduce the profits of American overseas production exported to the US and raise prices to US consumers.
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