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This is the new normal. A hobbled, diminished, shamed America is the new normal. So is an ascendant China and a more ...
As the US slapped a 104% tariff on China, as that country retaliated with an 84% hit at American goods, as Canada launched a ...
The greatest one-day advance for that index, by the way, was in 1933. That 16% romp came as the US government moved to breach ...
The crossing between Buffalo and our glorious Dominion usually entails watching brake lights for 45 minutes. Even longer on a ...
The market gazed upon Tariff Man Thursday morning, and had a cow. Today it became a herd. Losses abound (unless you own bonds, which you should – we told ya). Global recession is now more likely. The ...
Back just now from an Irish economic blarney weblog. GreaterO’Toole, run by one Gareth Tarner and his Blarg Dowgs. On this note not so far are we from the Irish situation of many decades? 1. A ...
Lost, but unforgotten in these Trumpian times, is the fact kiddos can’t buy houses. This week Pierre Poilievre stepped in it by saying 36-year-old women are getting antsy about real estate ...
Are you as sick of reading about the orange guy as we are scrobbling about him? Well, suck it up. There’s more. Tomorrow is Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ when he unveils (at 3 pm) an economic policy that’s ...
Kellyanne Conway was a senior Whitehouse aide for President Trump in his first term and famously stated there are “alternative facts” during a TV interview when defending a clear falsehood over ...