'When the wave of Japanese competition finally crashed on corporate America, those best equipped to understand it—the engineers—were no longer in charge. American boardrooms had been handed over to the finance people.' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY “CHIHUAHUA” BLINKEN WILL DELIVER AN “ULTIMATUM” TO CHINA ON WEDNESDAY 4-24-24 🇺🇸👉🗣️🇨🇳

I am hearing rumors that US Secretary of State Chihuahua Blinken is going to the People’s Republic of China to deliver the ultimatum:

“STOP HELPING RUSSIA OR

Todd N. Tucker Western industrial policy is to take over a strategic company, immediately sell off its assets, load it up with debt and run away.
China's sin is not treating critical industrial assets as a yard sale.

Why the United States is 'panic' about the gas pipeline between Iran and Pakistan?

Because it will connect to China.

The US gov spends more on the interest payments on debt than on military now.

This is the last stage of all empires.

Can you imagine an Indian or Chinese guy claiming to be an expert of US politics/society/economy, but he barely speaks English and has been to America perhaps once?

That’s the story of virtually all “China experts” in the West. It’s an intellectual circus in Western academia.

Economic sanctions are no different from sieges or lockdowns. They're collective punishment; acts of war against a population (and its leadership, if any).

Huawei's R&D spending in 2023: 164.7 billion RMB
Taiwan's military budget in 2024: 134.6 billion RMB

Interesting figures.😂

BREAKING:

United States threatens Pakistan with sanctions if it builds a pipeline to import gas from Iran.

Neoliberalism 'has led to the freedom of a few at the expense of the many. As Isaiah Berlin would have it: Freedom for the wolves; death for the sheep,' Joseph E. Stiglitz writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

China is much closer to Japan in terms of debt/GDP than people think. BRICS currency anyone?

Chart Alpine Macro

Comparative advantage has been the backbone of global economics for over 250 years.
It benefited US greatly until Japan & China.
US eviscerated Japan with the Plaza accord, destroying its economy.
It cannot do the same with China, which is not a vessel state of US like Japan is.

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai has just announced that a critical review of tariffs on over $300Bn in🇨🇳goods is wrapping up 'soon.' Speaking to Bloomberg TV, she revealed plans to refine these measures to be more strategic and impactful under the Biden administration.

What happens when most of the physical gold has moved from West to East?!

So why did we give them $61 billion again?

On April 23, 2018 Kate Middleton wore a dress identical to the one in the horror film ‘Rosemary's Baby,’ to present the birth of her second son to the world. In the film Rosemary is impregnated by a Satanic cult leader and gives birth to the anti-Christ. Rumors are circulating

Belgium is the world largest flax processor, especially for linen. It has a large cottage industry.

The flax industry is going broke.

Perhaps because most of the flax came from Russia? Canadian flax is much more expensive.

BREAKING: 🇮🇩 Indonesia posts trade surplus of $4.47 billion in March, the biggest in over a year.

Ukrainian forced get completely wrecked in the Donetsk area.
Russians broke through several lines at once and AFU just does not know where to send reserves next.
Things speeding up.