Jeffrey Sachs on tariffs: "If you take your credit card and you go shopping and you run up a large credit card debt, you’re running a trade deficit with all those shops. Now, it would be pretty strange if you then blamed all the shop owners for having sold you all those things."

“I voted for you to deport everyone else’s wife except mine. I was told that I was special.” —Dumb AF MAGA voters

I've followed Peter since his Facebook days (long ago), and long before he chose to join Heritage. I didn't mind he did, I don't mind smart people cashing in. I do mind stupid people cashing in. Peter St Onge spent a bunch of years in Asia in the 2000s (mostly Taiwan, some

The social system in the US is set up to reward idiocy.

US projection at its finest.

Chinese advertising is on a different level.

There goes her social credit score.

All those endless nights of clubbing was the lead up for this moment.

Tax the hundredsires and thousanaires because they can't leave the country.

Americans can't do math, they think going from 150% to 50% is meaningful.

The terms you’re looking for is “resolute and unyielding”.

Other than death, war & destruction, there isn’t anything the U.S. produces that cannot be sourced elsewhere.

Trump calling Xi.

The American worker doesn’t live in a capitalist society. He lives in a feudal one. But instead of kings and castles, you have CEOs and corporations. And instead of chains, you have debt. They take your taxes. But give you no healthcare. No education. No safety. No

HK ACTIVIST ADMITS U.S. PAYMENTS This is hilarious. You know Hong Kong people IN Hong Kong have been saying for years that the noisy "pro-democracy" "Hong Kong is oppressed" people, living overseas, who are always slagging off Hong Kong and China - People IN Hong Kong have been

I'll add that the 'civilisation vs barbarians' viewpoint is and always has been imperial nonsense. China has not dropped a bomb in over 50 years and eliminated extreme poverty in two generations, rising to lead the world in education, technology, manufacturing, and so much more.

Summary of recent progress on Thorium Reactors in PRC - from DeepSeek "significant thorium deposits in China’s Inner Mongolia: one mine could theoretically power China for tens of thousands of years." ### Summary of Xu Hongjie (徐宏杰) Recent Remarks on the Gobi Desert Thorium

Pretty self evident when China imposed strict adherence of export control upon buyers that they understand the economic impacts to the US.

Wasn't long ago when Western economists were freaking out about global shortages caused by rising Chinese consumer consumption. Now, they're saying Chinese aren't consuming enough.

Trump must have spent his life negotiating with incredibly dumb people to have earned a reputation as a world-class dealmaker.