No one ever said Americans were intelligent people.

"As I dug into the research, something far more important than the specific dollar estimate of an average family’s loss emerged: Trump’s economic policies have put the nation on a long-term path of decline, in terms of gross domestic product, employment, capital investment and wage growth."
#collapse #authoritarianism #Trumpism #econmics #RiggedMarkets #corruption #CostofLiving #tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/opinion/trump-affordability-crisis-hoax.html

Opinion | Why the ‘Affordability Hoax’ Is a Trap for Trump

I doubt this was what Trump meant when he called himself “Mr. Brexit.”

The New York Times
#tod #econmics #รถไฟความเร็วสูง #highspeedtrain #ญี่ปุ่น #JR

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The inescapable math of emissions, LNG, and international trade - Canadian Climate Institute - Blog

To what extent can increasing Canada’s LNG (liquefied natural gas) exports help Canada achieve its emission targets? LNG trade has ...

Canadian Climate Institute

@zensaiyuki That is, the dynamic is principally about #power rather than strictly #econmics or #profitMaximisation. And whilst at least in theory, an economic pie can be growing and _not_ zero-sum, that is, it's based on #cardinality, power is based on rank and *is* zero-sum, it's based on #ordinality: where you fall within a pecking order.

No matter how big the set, there's only one number-one spot.

(This is a flaw of all rank / popularity-based systems.)

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South Africa Risks $124 Billion In Face Of Low-Carbon Transition if it does not begin to shift away from its reliance on coal for power and export value

This is the conclusion from a report published Tuesday by London-based global think-tank Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) entitled Understanding the impact of a low carbon transition on South Africa, which seeks to evaluate the risks to South Africa from a global economic transition to a low-carbon economy between 2013 and 2035. Specifically, CPI’s Energy Finance team has been working with a range of partners to design a methodology and the supporting models to evaluate the risk that countries, companies, and the financial sector is likely to face from a global economic transition to a low-carbon economy. https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-605c-b1d4-0c26-ae3993781051

South Africa Risks $124 Billion In Face Of Low-Carbon Transition if it does not begin to shift away from its reliance on coal for power and export value

This is the conclusion from a report published Tuesday by London-based global think-tank Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) entitled Understanding the impact of...