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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2272347/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2272347/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Japan And EU Strengthen Economic And Security Ties With New Partnership Focused On Free Trade And Multilateral Cooperation <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomicSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomyOfEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomyOfEU</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomyOfEuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomyOfEuropeanUnion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomyOfTheEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomyOfTheEU</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomyOfTheEuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomyOfTheEuropeanUnion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EUEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EUEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>japan</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JapanTravelNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JapanTravelNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MultilateralCooperation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MultilateralCooperation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/StrategicPartnership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StrategicPartnership</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TourismNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TourismNews</span></a></p>
Lyle Solla-Yates<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250723174703/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-outdated-elevator-rules-are-adding-to-the-housing-crisis/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2025072317</span><span class="invisible">4703/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-outdated-elevator-rules-are-adding-to-the-housing-crisis/</span></a> “Strict size requirements backfire when developers choose to forgo accessibility entirely and just build townhouses or small walk-up apartment buildings.” <a href="https://cville.online/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>housing</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/elevator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elevator</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/BuildingCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuildingCode</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/shortage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shortage</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2261801/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2261801/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> August 1 is hard deadline Trump tariffs <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BreakingNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BreakingNews</span></a>:Economy <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BreakingNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BreakingNews</span></a>:Politics <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BusinessNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldJTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldJTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HowardLutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowardLutnick</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PresidentDonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentDonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PresidentOfTheUnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentOfTheUnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PresidentTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.S.Economy <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2255648/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2255648/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Türkiye, UK wrap up first round of free trade agreement talks <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TradeAgreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TradeAgreement</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkey</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/turkiye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turkiye</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a></p>
Canayjun<p>Trump’s <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> are a tax on the American people and businesses who import anything. A tariff on Canadian goods is a tax paid by Americans not Canadians. Canada doesn’t pay a penny. Tariffs on Europe, Brazil and China are all a tax on Americans. If someone crunched the numbers you could show that the President has increased taxes on Americans more than any other. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tradedeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tradedeal</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2247167/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2247167/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> US tariff pressure melts frozen RI-EU trade talks – Economy <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomyOfEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomyOfEU</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EconomyOfTheEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomyOfTheEU</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EUEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EUEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EuropeanCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanCommission</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanUnion</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTradeAgreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTradeAgreement</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/IEUCEPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IEUCEPA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PrabowoSubianto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrabowoSubianto</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UrsulaVonDerLeyen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UrsulaVonDerLeyen</span></a></p>
The Japan Times<p>As the U.S. pulls back, China claims to defend free trade and multilateralism but hasn’t matched its words with real action. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/11/world/china-a-defender-of-free-trade/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20</span><span class="invisible">25/07/11/world/china-a-defender-of-free-trade/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commentary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>worldnews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chineseeconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chineseeconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/useconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>useconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/globaleconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globaleconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geoeconomicbriefing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geoeconomicbriefing</span></a></p>
Matti Schneider<p>⚖️ Regulation &amp; Cooperation</p><p>• Global promotion of <a href="https://maly.io/tags/DSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DSA</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://maly.io/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DMA</span></a><br>• Renewed commitment to multilateralism: UN, G7, G20, OECD, ITU, IGF, UNESCO<br>• Responsible state behaviour in cyberspace, upholding international rule of law by implementing UN decisions<br>• Include <a href="https://maly.io/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> in <a href="https://maly.io/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> agreements, and dedicated “digital trade agreements”</p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2105910/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2105910/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Thoughts on the Oral Argument in the Oregon Case Against Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Nondelegation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nondelegation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oregon</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2070040/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2070040/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> For borderland ranchers, a trade war adds to troubles | <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/beef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beef</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/cattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cattle</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Chihuahua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chihuahua</span></a>(state) <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>–unitedStatesTradeWar <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Customs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Customs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/InternationalTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalTrade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/M%C3%A9xico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>México</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a>–unitedStatesBorder <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NorthAmericanFreeTradeAgreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NorthAmericanFreeTradeAgreement</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PresidencyOfDonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PresidencyOfDonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ranch</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TariffsInTheSecondTrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TariffsInTheSecondTrumpAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesDepartmentOfAgriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesDepartmentOfAgriculture</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesMexicoCanadaAgreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesMexicoCanadaAgreement</span></a></p>
Voting is Your POWER<p>UK and India sign a ‘landmark’ trade agreement after years of tough negotiations<br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/uk-india-trade-deal-starmer-modi-6cbaf787f49a08aac18f93b2601d09f2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/uk-india-tr</span><span class="invisible">ade-deal-starmer-modi-6cbaf787f49a08aac18f93b2601d09f2</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Since the Seventies, America’s deficits have provided East Asia (first Japan, then China) and Europe (primarily Germany) the demand for their factories’ manufactures. In return, the European Union, Japan and later China sent their accumulated profits to Wall Street to be recycled into US private and public debt, some equities, and real estate. A Chinese official once described this mechanism to me as a “dark deal”. “Our Dark Deal with the Americans,” the official explained, “turns on the US trade deficit, which keeps demand for our manufactures high. In return, our capitalists invest the bulk of their dollar superprofits into America’s FIRE”. (The acronym stands for “Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate.”) “Once this process got underway, America shifted much of its industrial production to our shores.”</p><p>The problem with this global recycling mechanism was that, to function smoothly, it had to generate larger and larger imbalances: greater trade deficits for the US and more accumulated savings for Northern Europe and East Asia. But there are limits to how large imbalances can grow. Ruptures are inevitable. The longer they are delayed, the greater the pain they inflict — a truth that centrists never acknowledged, not even when it was tearing down their houses.</p><p>Trump’s greatest strength comes from asking the pressing question that the centrists refuse to countenance: what comes after the Dark Deal? What comes after the imbalances built on the US trade deficit have proven unsustainably massive? Scott Bessent, Trump’s Treasury Secretary, put it succinctly in a recent speech at the IMF: “Everywhere we look across the international economic system today, we see imbalance… This status quo of large and persistent imbalances is not sustainable… The persistent over-reliance on the United States for demand is resulting in an evermore unbalanced global economy.”"</p><p><a href="https://unherd.com/2025/05/the-centrist-comeback-wont-last/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unherd.com/2025/05/the-centris</span><span class="invisible">t-comeback-wont-last/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Centrism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Centrism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liberalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TradeDeficit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TradeDeficit</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicDebt</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Lol, Contrarian Kemi at it again!</p><p>Starmer's secret weapon against the Tories, their own feckless leader. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KemiBadenoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KemiBadenoch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GlobalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalEconomy</span></a> already feeling drag from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTariffs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> are increasingly clogging up the wheels of a world <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> which for decades were greased by predictable &amp; relatively <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a>.</p><p>Big-name multinationals right down to niche e-commerce players last week cut sales targets, warned of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>job</span></a> cuts &amp; reviewed their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> plans, while major economies revised down growth prospects amid bleak data read-outs.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trumpcession</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/global-economy-already-feeling-drag-trump-tariffs-2025-05-05/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/china/global</span><span class="invisible">-economy-already-feeling-drag-trump-tariffs-2025-05-05/</span></a></p>
Easily Pleased<p>…countries passed IP laws to protect US tech interests in exchange for tariff-free access to US markets. …[now we have] a generational opportunity to pass laws that enable local technologists to jailbreak US tech exports and liberate their people from the extractive practices of Big Tech forever. </p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its-not-the-crime/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its</span><span class="invisible">-not-the-crime/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cory_doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cory_doctorow</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/unexpectedupside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unexpectedupside</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a></p>
Flipboard News Desk<p>Britain and the European Union are about to sign a formal commitment to “free and open trade” in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plans. Read more from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@politico" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>politico</span></a></span><br><a href="https://flip.it/1Z5Kgf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/1Z5Kgf</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In Finland, manufacturing accounted for 24 percent of GDP. By 1991, it had declined to 17. In Sweden, manufacturing as a share of GDP declined from 21 to 16 percent during the same period. But by the early 2000, Finland brought its manufacturing share of GDP back up to 24 percent, and Sweden raised its manufacturing share of GDP to 20 percent.</p><p>The same trend can be observed in Singapore. Singapore experienced quite a significant decline in manufacturing in the mid-1980s, from 27 percent to 20 percent. But by the mid-2000s, it had recovered back to 27 percent. By the way, Singapore, despite what people think, is one of the most industrialized countries in the world: in terms of per capita manufacturing output, it ranks in the top five globally. There’s an interesting myth about it being a service economy.</p><p>The most industrialized country in the world is Switzerland. You think that the Swiss are dealing in the black money from Third World dictators and selling cow bells and cuckoo clocks to American and Japanese tourists. Actually, it is literally the most industrialized country in the world, if you count in terms of manufacturing output per person.</p><p>These countries have managed to revive their manufacturing industry, and since then they have declined a bit. But the lesson here is that these countries could do that only because they had a deliberate policy to revive manufacturing. What Donald Trump is trying to do is wishful thinking. Countries that have successfully increased their manufacturing output have deliberate policies to support manufacturing. In the Swedish and Finnish case, it also extended to retraining the workers made redundant because of the decline in traditional manufacturing sectors and then turning them into workers for new industries."</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/04/tariffs-protectionism-manufacturing-industrial-policy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/04/tariffs-pr</span><span class="invisible">otectionism-manufacturing-industrial-policy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manufacturing</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Reindustrialization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reindustrialization</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Automation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Automation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Protectionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protectionism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IndutrialPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndutrialPolicy</span></a></p>
David Thomas Jackson<p>Chris Riddell on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a>, the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EasterBunny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EasterBunny</span></a> who came to break all the eggs - cartoon in The Observer, 20th April 2025.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> is smashed to pieces, while just a couple of chicks he fancies are spared.</p>
Earthworm 🐌Not so quick: free trade sucks, too.
🔻Stones of David🔻<p>After Yoon, Korea must reckon with its imperfect democracy</p><p><a href="https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/english_editorials/1191622.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">english.hani.co.kr/arti/englis</span><span class="invisible">h_edition/english_editorials/1191622.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/sanctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sanctions</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/nippon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nippon</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>japan</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/brics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brics</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AntiImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/tiktok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiktok</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/antiPalestinianracism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiPalestinianracism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/southkorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>southkorea</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/blackmastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>blackmastodon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@politics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>politics</span></a></span></p>