placeholder

You mean until these latest reversals, they weren't coming?

Images ... in the last 3 months Liberals have surged past Conservatives in the polls, and the reversal is due in large part to Canadians’ sudden revulsion over Trump’s relentless economic and rhetorical attacks on their nation. Now, Poilievre finds himself sprinting away from any association with the MAGA movement and his legion of American conservative fans. But while he has tried to define policy differences between himself and Trump ahead of the April 28 election, he has held fast to his confrontational anti-elite media style https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/12/pierre-poilievre-trump-canada-prime-minister-00286947

And even that number is fake. DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress https://archive.ph/Rf4p8

The only person Trump is negotiating with is himself.

If your high rise is going to be traveling at 8 times the speed of sound, it's going to be a great reinforcement.

Sure. He reverses course about 3 days after he ups the ante. It is to laugh.

You mean someone cancelled the increases behind his back?

At the time, Nolan said that more than half of Penn applicants were accepted into the school while transfer students, such as Trump, were given a higher acceptance rate based on their previous college experience. Data on the acceptance rate for the University of Pennsylvania in the 1960s isn't available, however, in the 1980s, the rate was "slightly greater than 40%," according to the school's website. At the time of writing, the school has an acceptance rate of 7%, according to the US News & World Report. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/13513653/donald-trump-kamala-harris-debate-wharton-school-pennsylvania/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Trump came to Wharton in 1966 as a 20-year-old transfer student from Fordham, enrolling as an undergraduate, not an MBA candidate (the MBA program is more exclusive), and flush with $2 million loaned to him by his father. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wharton-donald-trump_n_57b2371be4b0a8e15024e6b8

Liz Truss redux https://archive.ph/2U6Db#selection-681.0-681.211

I think you don't understand why I made my post: I was replying to this:

Investors are forward looking in their thinking. And given the obvious consequences of Trump's foolishness, who can blame them?

Which is where a penguin would prefer to be. Flamingos are better built for the heat. And I just learned from my spellchecker that the plural form for the word isn't flamingoes.

You know, before the Iraq war, the Pentagon assigned a team to simulate what would happen in Iraq if the US invaded. The Pentagon didn't like the results so they squelched them. Writing about them is not the same as espousing. I have plenty of criticisms for the Chinese govt. Even more so since Xi took power.

First of all, you might as well ask why does the USA have them on virtually every country even before Trump ever took office? The sensible question to ask is how high are tariffs other countries imposed and how did they compare to US tariff before Trump took office,

Except reality.

Actually, investors have been fleeing to Japanese and German bonds.

In other words, Trump blinked. Again.

I don't trust the Chinese figures, though. They deny that a million Uighurs are incarcerated in camps. I don't know if they are included in the above figures. Still, on the basis of incarceration rate, I think the US wins. At least among major nations.

Actually the most appealing part of his platform was the pledge to reduce inflation and to bring on strong economic growth. Most Americans are not in favor of reducing taxes on the wealthy. Quite the opposite.

There was always a lot of Islamic scholarship going on. That was a symptom rather than a cause.

I agree with most of what you claim. Although not the part about a major depression. Its economy on the whole certainly isn't doing well. It's hard to trust its GDP figures especially since reporting on internal figures without authorization from the government can lead to the death penalty. Hardly an incentive for an investigative journalist. Xi is basically a dedicated Socialist who keeps on having to grudgingly concede ground that the has taken back form the private sector of the Chinese economy, a sector that used to be larger than the government owned one. Not anymore.His dilemma is that if he allows a lot more freedom to the private sector, that means the relative power of the Party diminishes. Still, none of that takes away from how rapidly the Chinese technological sector is growing and advancing.

I think he was praising China. Not that I thought his praise had much relevance. For example, Islamic civilization was once the world's leader in science and math. Very advanced in agricultural technology. That doesn't mean it's leading the world now.

It's not the stocks that are so worrying. It's the bonds: Treasuries Suddenly Trade Like Risky Assets in Warning to Trump April 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM UTC Updated on April 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM UTC Billed on Wall Street as so rock-solid safe they’re risk-free, US Treasury bonds have long served as first port of call for investors during times of panic. They rallied during the global financial crisis, on 9/11 and even when America’s own credit rating was cut. But now, as President Donald Trump unleashes an all-out assault on global trade, their status as the world’s safe haven is increasingly coming into question. https://archive.ph/3k9Uj#selection-2457.0-2461.157

Making it personal: the sure sign that you've got nothing.