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Yicai: "Seventy-five percent of the Chinese foreign trade enterprises interviewed by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade intend to expand into emerging markets to compensate for shrinking exports to the United States." www.yicaiglobal.com/news/75-of-c...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

1/3 Whether or not China can shift its exports away from the US and to the developing world depends crucially on whether or not US trade policies will actually succeed in reducing the US trade deficit – something about which I am very skeptical. www.ft.com/content/ff1f...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

DO YOU THINK PUTIN IS PROUD OF ME NOW?

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

‘We Must Protect The Pure Aryan Bloodline,’ Says Child After 9 Minutes Of Unsupervised Facebook Access

submitted 143 days ago • 460 comments

If you think only billionaires can control social media, You are absolutely wrong. Social media is completely dependent on its users. Think about why you do or did use FB, ThreadsTik tok or Twitter. It's because they have enough users. Take away all the "normies" and they all are worthless

submitted 148 days ago • 1384 comments

Concerning

submitted 163 days ago • 255 comments

It’s late 1934 and an American automobile magnate is supporting the German fascist party. It’s late 2024 and an ‘American’ ‘automobile’ magnate is supporting the German fascist party. www.politico.eu/article/elon...

submitted 165 days ago • 76 comments

Look at all the drones!

submitted 165 days ago • 4 comments

You still have people saying, "I don't see any evidence that Musk is a neo-Nazi." And it's like, I can't know what's in his heart, but he follows them on Twitter, retweets them, promotes their conspiracy theories, parrots their rhetoric, and now recommends their party for Germany. But who knows?

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submitted 170 days ago • 641 comments

For those who haven't done the math, in the three months from August to November, CPI prices in China have declined at an annualized rate of just over 3.5%.

submitted 176 days ago • 3 comments

Cullen has great conceptual economic insights. I’ve always found him a good person to follow.

submitted 180 days ago • 3 comments

Pokemon Go exists because of 9/11.

submitted 183 days ago • 13 comments

Vito beat out nearly 2,000 other dogs to become the first pug to win the National Dog Show. The two-year-old pup became a sensation on Thursday, when the competition, which was held earlier this month, was broadcast on NBC after the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

submitted 186 days ago • 254 comments

1/2 FT: "A former senior Chinese financial regulator has said top Beijing leaders set “psychological” targets for the nation’s stock markets and currency exchange rate that are not based on fundamentals." www.ft.com/content/4029...

submitted 187 days ago • 3 comments

Orange County, CA in the 1960s was a hotbed of John Bircher anti-government, conspiracy obsessed activism. Many of the men involved with the Birchers also worked in the federally-funded aerospace industry. This book is great on that.

submitted 190 days ago • 25 comments