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Well played.

submitted 1 hour ago • 237 comments

Canadian military spending under Harper and Trudeau. #cdnpoli

submitted 7 hours ago • 15 comments

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

I think my favorite part is how a cargo ship takes at least 10 days to cross the Atlantic and at least 15 days to cross the Pacific, so if your cargo ship left somewhere on April 1 headed for the U.S. then you've gone through multiple wildly different tariff regimes while still at sea.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

More tariff exemptions. So again, the question: If tariffs are so great, why so many exemptions? www.mediaite.com/news/breakin...

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

My latest: "All Hail the New Authoritarian America" In America, you can now wear a MAGA hat, storm the U.S. Capitol, and attack police officers, but you can't commit a thought crime, be a legal immigrant, or criticize the dear leader. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Under His Eye www.yahoo.com/news/state-t...

submitted 4 days ago • 177 comments

Gift article on US illiteracy and Trump tariffs: “Producing something this stupid is not the work of a day; it is the achievement of a lifetime — relying on decades of incuriosity, decades of not cracking a book, decades of being impervious to evidence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

No DOGE savings at all. It's all a complete lie. All they've done is fire qualified workers while not actually cutting spending at all.

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

How incredible quiet backroom maneuvering by Canadian PM Carney, in conjunction with Japan and the EU, forced Trump to retreat from his insane “reciprocal tariffs”. Amazing. 🇨🇦 open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Markets woke up and realized that a 10% global tariff and 125% tariff on China is still going to devastate America’s economy.

submitted 5 days ago • 403 comments

The trader guys woke up this morning in the same clothes as last night, covered in margarita stains and their own vomit. Then the realisation hit. A 125% tariff on China and 10% tariff on 200 other countries isn’t a “pause on tariffs”.

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

Trump still hasn't figured out political asylum and insane asylums are two different things

submitted 6 days ago • 216 comments

Multiple things can be true here. 1) This was never the plan. 2) 10% tariffs on everyone and 125% tariffs on China is a horrible idea. 3) It's ok to breathe a sigh of relief that we've moved (at least temporarily) from total economic collapse to merely engineering a likely recession.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The whole point of these tariffs, on their (totally absurd) own terms was that they were cast in iron and immovable. So whatever the short term pain other countries wld be forced to accept that fact and deal on that basis. Trump managed one week before caving.

submitted 6 days ago • 57 comments

Very seriously - this is why the Canadian govt has repeatedly said they do not comment on the American administration's social media or TV comments. They only respond to official documents sent to them. This is why. This White House is chaos.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

In Trump's America, the one thing you can count on is a potential market meltdown every 90 days. Ask yourself: what CEO, business, or trading partner in their right mind is going to ever invest in America when a psychopath tries to blow up the economy every 90 days?

submitted 6 days ago • 130 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I'm starting to doubt whether the Trump Administration has really thought these tariffs through.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

For veterans of the Eurozone crisis, this is quite incredible - today Greece has a lower borrowing cost than both the UK and the US for their 10 year bonds. I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

If I wanted to help the Chinese economy, arguably the best thing I could do was decouple the US economy from the rest of the world, put up crippling US trade barriers, destroy the US reputation for business sense and cooperation, and force US allies to do more trade with China.

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 7 days ago • 263 comments

“Trump was frequently unprepared, with little grasp of who had performed well. Sometimes a candidate distinguished herself during the contest only to get fired, on a whim. When this happened, Braun said, the editors were often obliged to ‘reverse engineer’ episode” www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.

submitted 10 days ago • 625 comments

The trade war will undoubtedly hurt the Chinese economy. But I honestly don’t think Xi cares. He sees this correctly, as a historic opportunity to destroy U.S. global influence.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

I have 2 or 3 important annual professional conferences that I usually attend in the US. I decided when Trump was re-elected that I wasn’t going back to the US while he was president. Just not worth it. That was before insane tariffs, 51st state, illegal kidnappings, dismantling federal govt, etc.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"If we buy coffee from Costa Rica and they buy nothing from us (which isn’t true, but just as an illustration), in no sense has Costa Rica taken advantage of America. We gave them dollars and they gave us coffee in return. That is called commerce."

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

White House: we want reciprocal tariffs Vietnam: fine, let’s do zero percent White House: fuck you Absolute clown car administration

submitted 8 days ago • 768 comments

Waiting for the North American financial markets to open today is like watching one of Musk’s SpaceX launches. You know it’s probably going to blow up and spread debris over a huge area, but you’re just hoping any of the really big pieces don’t hit you.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Like an old political fable, it was not many lies of the political ruler that did the damage, but the one thing the ruler had always told the truth about. Trump has long said he would put up tariffs, but many of his foolish supporters happily assumed it was another lie. But it was truth.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

They’re saying 3 mutually incompatible things about the tariffs: 1) They are long term and will cause onshoring 2) They are long term and will raise revenue (which only happens in absence of onshoring) 3) They are a tactic to get others to lower tariffs (and therefore aren’t long term)

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

Critical Mineral Mania: “China has responded to Trump’s tariffs by cutting off U.S. supply of some of the most essential ingredients of the modern world. The U.S., meanwhile, is standing in the cold, holding a clipboard and wondering where the magnets went.” cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is like O.J. attending Nicole’s funeral (which he did, and for the same reason).

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

Tell you what. Why don’t you give me a free option on a 1M Dow futures at 50,000 for January 2029 if you’re so sure it will rebound like that. No?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The current version of SignalGate the White House is pushing now is being styled as an “unlikely series of events”, which is a charming euphemism for “complete bullshit”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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