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I lived most of my life in Copenhagen, but now I live on a small island. I enjoy my garden, sports and to travel, especially Sicily.
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There will always be a push back for justice and fairness. It's called "etos". Described by the Greek, the Roman and German filosoffers. It's embedded in human nature, in our dna. After a period of democracy, there will come a short period of fascism, then a push back towards democracy...

"Without the rule of low, there is nothing" - former german kansler Dr Helmuth Smith.

Foxconn makes an iPhone for 10 dollar. Lutnick want to bring back manufacturing to the US. So what is the plan? I would like to hear it...

Women and children killed today in Sumy, preparing for the Easter week, it is simply heartbreaking. My deepest condolences to everyone affected of this insane murdering on civilians in Ukraine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ’”

Both Xi and Putin are playing Trump. Everybody can see that, except Fox News. Trump is an amateur, with mental problems, who has no plan what so ever. When you play your best cards even before a negotiation, you cannot win anything. This is a major disaster for Ukraine and the American economy...

China now knows it can win any war against the US. And they haven't even starting to dump their US bonds yet. Donald Trump just gave away his hand for nothing. Absolutely nothing...

Trump wanted a personal meeting with Xi, but got a 125 percent tariff back. Trump doesn't look like a champion negotiater to me. More like an idiot in total panic, realizing he is going to bankrupt his own country...

Trumps tariffs sends the oil prices below 60 dollar a barrel, and increase the cost of production, killing the industry in the US. This is how tariffs works, Mister President...

Everywhere Trump and Vance goes, corruption, idiots, destruction, insanity and bad decisions follow...

Oh, now smartphones are no longer part of the trade war. So I guess millions of Americans are not going to get jobs, screwing tiny screws any more. What the fuck is going on? Another inside trade stunt for his rich friends...?

Easter boils down, traditionally, to this: Hope and fear. Hope of eternal life and fear of death. Hope and fear; the Christ and the Devil. In the old Testament the Devil killed zero, but he was feared anyway. Because fear itself can control you. Hope that good will never die, can also control you 🐰

Looks like Susannah Meyers was way to friendly to Denmark and therefore couldn't be used as a weapon by Vance and other scumbags. She knew very well, that she would lose her job, sending that text. But she did it anyway, because she had the guts to stand up and honored the truth. I hope she is okay.

Modern warfare on the European continent has changed dramatically the last 3 years. If Russia attacks, it would probably not be with tanks, but drones. Thousands of drones. Combined with artillery and endless bombing of civilians. As we see it right now in Ukraine. Russia lost 10.000 tanks already.

Ramstein meetings moved permanently to Brussels, without the US? Then it is not the Ramstein-format anymore. It is the coalition of the willing...

Susannah Meyers, military chief of Thule Air base just got fired, because she couldn't recognize what Vance said about Denmark's role in the Arctic. The security of Arctic is a joint task of NATO, the US and Denmark...

J.D. Vance could have used the term; farmer, on his Chinese statement. But he didn't. He once again showed what an arrogant asshole he truly is.

Japan apparently dropped a lot of US bonds yesterday, forcing the 10 year interest up to almost 5 percent. Image what will happen if China decide to dump half of theirs tomorrow? It is a dangerous game of chicken, and Trump pulled back. He does not understand economy and he is playing with fire...

I bet when, somebody told Trump, that the interest rate om the US debt went to 4,2 percent, he realized that the game was over. Even his best friend Israel was pissed off. He had no friends. This was suicidal from the beginning. Now he wants to focus on China and continue the game. Insane...

Okay. So now it is the US and China left to fight it out. 125 percent tariff on everything Chinese and probably the same the other way around. And the Dow just jumped over 6 percent. Interesting. But, this is just insane...

I suspect Maria Bartiromo knows very well what goes on in the economy. But I also suspect, that she likes her job more, than telling her viewers πŸ€”

Russia is double trapped by China right now. The oil prices is going to bankrupt them this year, if this goes on. But, they have a lot of gold and gold is up, yes? Well, Russia sold most of it to China last year and now China furthermore lowered their Yuan to cope with tariffs. Making Russia suffer.

In 2024 the US exported 2 million barrels a day, a record, for over 70 dollar. Now the price is 58 dollar. That hurts American economy badly. Why drill for more than? Cheap energy for Industries should come from the sun, wind and nuclear. Not coal, gas and oil. Trump believes we live in the 1980'...

It's very hard to estimate where the bottom is, when a recession kicks in, and trade are reduced with 15-20 percent. What is a company truly worth, when it struggles to make money on any market? This is what happens, when you short circuit world trade with high tariffs. Nobody wins that game...

If Tesla hits 199 dollar, Musk has to re-finance the entire company with new money. Can he do that? I doubt it. Who will put money in a brand, so toxic? In a global recession? With a Nazi CEO? And an aged technology? Nobody. And if Tesla goes down, the rest will follow...

Kremlin in total panic, after Brent Oil goes well under 60 dollar. This could wreck Russian economy even faster, than sanctions. Remember, the 2025 state budget says 69,70 a barrel...

In Denmark, we never produced cars, so I grew up with 180 percent tariff on new cars. Making it almost impossible for us to buy one. We bought used, smaller cars, with less safety and less comfort. It's better now; it's only 130 percent and 0 on electric cars. So yes, tariffs are a tax you pay...

Trumps fantasy objectives changes every day, almost every time he speaks. Now it's the Chinese military budget. Yesterday it was bringing back manufacturing. Nobody can see any logic in this. Because there are none. The market moves along and will find new ways, new opportunities. Trump will not...

Looks like Trump and Lutnick are about to destroy Tesla, and Musk is in a state of panic. Collateral damage, just got a brand new meaning...

Warren Buffet read the 2025 plan. He read Trump and he read the market. He got rid of bank shares, Tesla and other high risk companies. And he bought bonds and piled cash. And still, Elon Musk thinks he is an idiot, that never build anything...

The Dow Jones "beep" we saw yesterday, was something never seen before. A market rising and falling about 5 percent within minutes witness a crazy situation, created by crazy people.

Trump demands EU to start buying energy from the US. But we already do. In fact we asked them to sell us more gas, and build new harbors in Germany to receive it, after we cut off Russian gas. So what's the problem here. The problem is, that Trump is a maniac, and fucks everything up...

Kremlin in panic after oil prizes drops below 62 dollars a barrel. Peskov says tonight on Interfax, that it is a bad situation for Russia. The celebration of Trump seems to be over. Nothing indicates, that he will back down on tariffs in the near future. So the oil will maybe go even lower tomorrow.

A minor correction was expected in January/February, mainly because US tech-shares had become too expensive, the last year or so. But nobody expected an attack on the world trade, as we see it now. Worse than covid19 and probably close to 2008, although, a lot of shares are very cheap right now...

Experts on pension funds in Denmark, says it will take 4-6 years to regain the loss from Trump. I think they may have a point here...

Does Musk really think he can surf around, promoting free trade (especially for Tesla cars), without losing more market? No way. He is definitely in on this MAGA-thing, toxic masculinity and fascist thinking. You cannot be free trade and MAGA at the same time. He lost a lot of money, suck it up...