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Interview with Hua Bin
Question 1---What are Trump's tariffs on China supposed to achieve, and will they succeed? Hua Bin--- I don't think Trump has a clear idea himself because many of the supposed goals are contradictory and historically he is a shoot-from-the-hip type guy - no deep thinking, always swinging, and never ashamed of his own blatant lies.... Read More
SHANGHAI - There could not be a more strategic place to spend these past Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT) heady days than in Shanghai – China’s trade, commercial and cultural capital. From the top of the Jin Mao tower in the world class Lujiazui financial district in Pudong, an elegantly discreet art deco companion to the... Read More
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The situation in this world is becoming increasingly muddled and unpredictable. Trump has misjudged the Chinese, Putin is not backing down and Iran is too big a chunk for the Americans. In addition, there is historic instability in the financial markets. Introduction We sent greetings at the end of 2024 with the card below. “Anything... Read More
Trump supporters are celebrating economic collapse to own the libs
source: @Karl_Was_Right on X The message from MAGA figures regarding the tariffs is that Americans must sacrifice and suffer now for the national good and a brighter future. This is an attitude that has not existed in America since the New Deal and World War II, in contrast to the late 20th Century mantra, which... Read More
With tariffs on China reaching comical numbers, the instability in Donald Trump’s economic strategy continues to grow. Geopolitical Economy Report editor and journalist Ben Norton, who lives in China, joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of Scheer Intelligence to make sense of the developments and why the U.S.’s typical economic bullying tactics will not... Read More
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Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years. The Trump ‘shock’ – his ‘de-centring’ of America from serving as pivot to the post-war ‘order’ via the dollar – has triggered a deep cleavage between those who gained huge benefit from the status... Read More
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In an amusing display of British pride and solipsism, the venerable Times of London once ran the headline "Fog in Channel - Continent Cut Off." Overly arrogant individuals sometimes find it difficult to recognize that they are not the center of the universe, and that instead they might actually be considerably less large and powerful... Read More
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King Trump is the emperor with no clothes
When I wrote my last essay China’s Strategy to Defeat US by Bankrupting It ( just before Trump’s “liberation day”, I thought I would do a follow up in a month’s time after the dust settles down a little. Things have moved along the trajectory as predicted but at a much faster pace than I... Read More
Starmer’s policy pivot on trade and investment shows a level of clarity and purpose not seen in his faltering first six months on foreign policy Britain and Russia find themselves in a fascinating position of taking a moderate line on Trump’s Tariff war while at the same time building close economic ties with China. I... Read More
Donald Trump’s Distorted View of America’s Tariff History
Donald Trump’s tariff policy has thrown markets into turmoil among his allies and enemies alike. This anarchy reflects the fact that his major aim was not really tariff policy, but simply to cut income taxes on the wealthy, by replacing them with tariffs as the main source of government revenue. Extracting economic concessions from other... Read More
President Donald Trump wants to be a modern ‘Stupor Mundi or wonder of the world. The last ‘stupor mundi’ was the celebrated German Holy Roman Emperor and crusader, Federick II, known as ‘Barbarossa.’ It appears that President Trump seems determined to become the most important and commented upon person on earth. So far, he has... Read More
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Meet The New Boss, Same as the Old Boss We just learned that the world’s most powerful person, Donald Trump, has a boss: the bond market. He may not have acknowledged this to himself, but the global financial tumult he caused.... has locked him in a fiscal prison. ....He is totally in hock to the... Read More
Three wise monkeys are perfectly aware of what a pigeon posing as eagle is really up to. The Toddler Temper Tantrum-style Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT), now accelerated to 145% – and counting – is yet another thunderous trademark pigeon smashing the chessboard gambit. It won’t work. Trump claimed that China would call him to “make... Read More
The whore media is doing its best to misrepresent the tariff issue and to cause hysteria that causes stock market volatility and fears of world recession. One of the anti-Trump propaganda ministries that poses as financial media went so far as to claim that Trump has caused a “regime shift whereby US Treasuries are no... Read More
Trump caved on tariffs but the US economy is still f-ed
source: @Schuldensuehner on X Last Friday was the worst day for stocks since the COVID crash, and the worst week for stocks since the 2008 financial crisis. This crash was one of three instances with back-to-back 5% or more declines, along with the 1929 Great Depression and the 2008 Financial Crisis. While even perma bull... Read More
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The Trump tariff extravaganza was never about trade deficits, reindustrialization, or bringing jobs back to America. It was always about China. Now that Trump has either eased or lifted the tariffs on 90 other countries, we can see what's actually going on. Trump is using the 'tariffs smokescreen' to implement his decoupling policy, a strategy... Read More
These are levels of craziness that are part of the decline I suspect of all empires when they consume themselves,” Professor Richard Wolff says of America’s current situation in the outset of Donald Trump’s second term. He joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the history and rationale... Read More
Americans have become so accustomed to living under tyranny that they are probably incapable of recognizing tyranny. Once upon a time, April 15 was the annual day of infamy. It was the day you had to pay your income taxes. Americans have been subjected to a tax on their working lives for less than half... Read More
According to the official White House schedule, President Donald Trump doesn’t start his day until lunchtime when he sits down with his political heir, Vice President J.D. Vance, at 12:30. He has more lunches with Vance than he receives briefings from his secret services on the threats of his enemies. Trump knows to keep his... Read More
The tariff controversy is being colored in the most scary ways possible, because the Democrats, media, and ruling establishment want rid of Trump. It is also important to understand that tariffs are not the only way to limit imports. There are other means, such as quotas. Quotas on imports into the US of Japanese cars... Read More
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I've never met Donald Trump nor had any dealings with him, and since I don't watch television, I'd barely paid attention to his antics until his unexpectedly strong run for the White House began attracting heavy media coverage in 2015. But some time ago I was privately meeting on other matters with one of Trump's... Read More
It is not a full quarter as his inauguration was 20 days into it, but it is the first quarter of 2025. How does it look? Perhaps I can put it this way: a lot of good initiatives undertaken in a haphazard way that could limit their effectiveness or even result in failure. I will... Read More
President Trump was elected in part because he promised to reduce prices and not drag the country into foreign wars. Sadly, President Trump has adopted a tariff policy that will raise prices and abandoned his “America First” foreign policy in favor of a return to Bush-era neoconservatism. Despite criticizing President Biden for bombing Yemen, President... Read More
Interview with Jackson Hinkle
🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 BREAKING: BRICS CAN FREE THE WORLD FROM GLOBALISTSHUGE interview with MICHAEL HUDSON! — Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) April 7, 2025
President Trump has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Republican President William McKinley, highlighting his use of tariffs as a model for economic policy. But as critics note, Trump’s tariffs, which are intended to protect U.S. interests, have instead fueled a stock market nosedive, provoked tit-for-tat tariffs from key partners, risk a broader trade withdrawal, and... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, and our friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolfer back with us. Welcome back. Let's talk about the Liberation Day and the new tariffs on each and every country on this planet. And here is what the press secretary, the White House press secretary said about... Read More
President Donald Trump signs an Executive Order on the Administration’s tariff plans at a “Make America Wealthy Again” event, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in the White House Rose Garden. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
U.S. President Donald Trump is trashing the world trade system over a basic economic fallacy. He wrongly claims that America’s trade deficit is caused by the rest of the world ripping off the U.S., repeatedly stating things such as, “Over the decades, they ripped us off like no country has never been ripped off in... Read More
Global Majority, rejoice! And step on the high-speed rail de-dollarization train. Circus ringmaster Trump’s Tariff Tizzy (TTT), christened by himself as “Liberation Day”, is being largely interpreted around the world – Global North and Global South alike – as Slaughterhouse Day. This de facto uncontrolled economic demolition gambit starts with the warped fantasy that launching... Read More
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As Trump rolls out his tariffs on the world on “liberation day”, China watches with glee. It doesn't happen everyday when one's adversary blows his head off in front of you on his own initiative. Talk about never interrupt your enemy when he is making the mother of all mistakes… The inevitable result of Trump's... Read More
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'Hold to no illusions; there is nothing beyond this reality'
A U.S. economic ‘re-balancing’ is coming. Putin is right. The post-WWII economic order ‘is gone’ The post-WWII geo-political outcome effectively determined the post-war global economic structure. Both are now undergoing huge change. What remains stuck fast however, is the general (Western) weltanschauung that everything must ‘change’ only for it to stay the same. Things financial... Read More
Will Trump's Tariffs on Europe and his abandonment of Ukraine dismantle the Euro-American geopolitical order?
While a lot of Russia Gate was initially nonsense or greatly exaggerated, it now seems that Trump and MAGA are friendly toward Russia which was partially a reaction against Russia Gate. For instance, Tucker Carlson has gone beyond just opposing the war efforts to sounding very pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine. Many MAGA types resent Ukrainians for... Read More
President Donald Trump in Congress to deliver a joint-session speech on March 4. (White House / Flickr)
During Donald Trump’s first four years in the White House, the stranger to Washington’s infernal ways got nothing done: That cabal of various Deep State appendages — the Democratic Party’s upper echelons, the intelligence apparatus, the Justice Department and the F.B.I., and corporate media — made sure of that. Trump seems to have thought this... Read More
Vijay Prashad joins host Robert Scheer on this episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast to discuss the emergence of a multipolar world and how the Trump administration, although domestically threatening, appears to be shifting from the traditional adversary world force seen in previous administrations. The two discuss China’s rise in technological advancement and how the... Read More
The US and China came closer to a full-fledged trade war last week when China imposed tariffs of up to 15 percent on key US agricultural exports. This was retaliation for President Trump’s increasing of tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States from 10 percent to 20 percent. China’s retaliatory tariffs show how export-dependent... Read More
Colombia’s willingness to challenge the United States' interests abroad will make it a target for potential regime...
Once one of the more solid bilateral partnerships in the Western Hemisphere, Colombia-United States relations are on the cusp of entering a new phase of deterioration under Donald Trump’s second term. Starting on Jan. 26, 2025, a diplomatic dispute erupted between the United States and Colombia over the deportation of Colombian illegal aliens. In that... Read More
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, February 27, 2025 and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are back with us. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Thank you. Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let's get started with what's going on in Germany. People wanted some sort of change in terms of domestic and foreign... Read More
Prior to 1913 the US government was financed by tariffs. It was under tariffs, not free trade, that the United States industrialized and became a manufacturing nation. Indeed, the Union invaded and destroyed the Confederacy in order to impose the Morrill Tariff on the South that enabled the North to industrialize. The North could not... Read More
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Why has the price of gold been increasing so fast, breaking records? Economist Michael Hudson explains the politics of the precious metal, and the dynamics of the US dollar system. Transcript (Introduction) BEN NORTON: The price of gold has been skyrocketing. Since 2018, the price of gold has nearly tripled. This has caused a big... Read More
It seems the tariffs were a ploy to get Mexico and Canada to defend our borders from their sides against the entry of drugs and immigrant-invaders. Government corruption The corruption–indeed, anti-Americanism–that has come to light in the FBI, CIA, USAID, DOJ, and assuredly everywhere else in government is extraordinary. The US government has not only... Read More
Donald Trump’s tariffs could destabilize the global economy, warns economist Michael Hudson. US protectionist policies could cause financial crises, as many currencies depreciate and countries can’t earn the dollars needed to pay their foreign debts. Transcript (Introduction) BEN NORTON: Donald Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on countries all around the world, including the top... Read More
The only thing I even care about at all is the price of crypto. This “pause” has already fixed that problem. Reuters: Canada agreed to deploy new technology and personnel along its border with the United States and launch cooperative efforts to fight organized crime, fentanyl smuggling and money laundering. Mexico agreed to reinforce its... Read More
Tariffs, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, electric cars: there is much to be said about the evolving relationship between China and the United States. While Donald Trump’s recent tariffs on the country are just the latest story, it is only a fraction of the news coming out of China that directly affects the U.S. and the future... Read More
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The US will impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and 10 percent on China, the Trump White House said. The “tariffs” in reality are taxes imposed on imports of foreign produced goods, including the offshored production of US corporations of goods and services sold in the US. If the tariffs are paid by... Read More
Patriot President is going ahead with putting tariffs on the repulsive woke EU, which is scamming America while oppressing its own citizens and supporting a nonsensical war against Russia. “Am I going to impose tariffs on the European Union? You want the truthful answer, or should I give you a political answer? Absolutely, absolutely,” Trump... Read More
The woke scum in Canada and Mexico need to be forced to feel the pain of what they have done to the US economy, and Patriot President is not going to let them off the hook because they are whining like triggered snowflakes. The bluepilled kike leader of Mexico can go chomp rocks with that... Read More
America has been an empire my entire life. Under the new Administration, the empire is serving Americans, rather than a nebulous “postwar order.” Paleoconservatives, libertarians, and most race realists are skeptical of foreign intervention and often sneer at “empire,” but what matters is whose interests it serves. That is now the main foreign policy debate... Read More
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Trump has promoted a number of plans to make America strong – at other countries’ expense. Given his “we win; you lose” motto, some of his plans would produce the opposite effect of what he imagines. That would not be much of a change in U.S. policy. But I suggest that Hudson’s Law may be... Read More
Brent Johnson's Dollar Milkshake Theory
Santiago Capital CEO, Brent Johnson’s, Dollar Milkshake Theory is that “there simply aren't enough US dollars created to keep up with the rising demand. And when the greenback rises high enough and fast enough to lead to defaults abroad, the demand for dollars swirls up and its supply shrinks, leading to an epic squeeze higher.”... Read More
Previously: Trump Says Sanctions on Other Countries are Crashing the US Dollar This would actually be a very important thing to do if you supported the continued existence of the US global empire. Personally, I do not support that empire, and want to see the US government collapse. It almost makes me want to support... Read More