How does Javier Milei do it? Not with tariffs. He does it with free market capitalism.

Britain built its last reservoir in 1992. Since then Poland has built *six* new reservoirs. Britain built its last motorway in 2003. Since then Poland has added over *1,300km* of new motorway. And each year per person, Poland builds *twice* as many new homes as Britain.

This is a great comment from a Taiwanese mutual I want to elevate: "Lately the Nobel in economics has been all about ‘poverty’ but no matter the year or region they study, China is neverpart of it. Whether it’s poverty, development, modernization, wealth distribution, or energy

Fentanyl is smuggled into the US by US citizens, not cartels, not Mexicans, and not other Latin Americans, and certainly not the Chinese who export legal, pharmacy grade precursors to more than 100 countries, none of which have a fentanyl problem, except the USA. This is an US

Deindustrialization in the US has been a consistent, steady trend since the 1950s.

For a country that prides itself on freedom, America certainly isn't free to build places like these.

It's subtle, but if you look very closely at this chart, you can see the exact moment when Trump announced the Japan trade "deal" that prioritizes imported cars over American car manufacturing

People are starting to realize that China’s massive buildout of solar photovoltaics has nothing to do with climate change, and everything to do with tapping the resource that makes up >99.9% of Earth’s energy budget.

Here’s my plan for energy dominance: - punch solar, batteries, and electric motors while China dominates us - larp as pro nuclear but do little to nothing - classify coal as a critical mineral - claim we’ll help O&G even though production was already at absolute record levels

Angelica’s doctrine: a nation’s hard power increases as a function of electricity consumption. GDP can be padded. Currency can be printed. One kilowatt hour is worth one kilowatt hour. Power is power: embrace electro-realism.

If your manufacturing is not price-competitive abroad, your military is not price-competitive abroad. Because the wartime economy is just a subset of the peacetime economy. You can only turn plowshares into swords if you’re cranking out plowshares at low cost and high quality.

It's so weird watching supposed conservatives calling a government-imposed 13.5% tax hike on American businesses and consumers a "grand slam."

(Bloomberg) -- US wholesale inflation accelerated in July by the most in three years, boosted by a surge in margins that indicates companies are not absorbing higher import costs related to tariffs.

The jaws of stagflation are wide open, per Bloomberg:

From Dan Wang’s new book. Interesting thesis. Engineers do tend to think in terms of solving problems. Lawyers profit when there are unsolvable problems. 🇨🇳

Yes, the stake are large. Very large.

Are any of you in favor of a government controlled economy? Cause that’s where we’re headed. Fed control now gone Tariffs controlling what our goods cost Government buying companies National guard deployed. Out of control government spending This isn’t what I voted for.

The cause of the 2007 recession: so complicated that there were several movies that tried to explain it and still most people don’t understand it The cause of the 2025 recession: the president pressed the big red “crash the economy” button while Fox News called him a genius

The story of silicon valley is having an economy that desperately wants to build the second picture but a voting base that desperately wants to keep the first picture, so you end up with nothing but rotting ranch houses and strip malls. Biggest bag fumble in history.

I had to triplecheck this because I didn't believe it... All of the world's discovered reserves of fossil fuels = the same energy as just 5 days of sunlight hitting the Earth🤯 Solar power is basically unlimited🤷‍♂️