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Chump, Trump… does more than rhymes. So, Paul Krugman calls a former president a “chump” because China rolled him and Trump calls Krugman names and attacks the New York Times. Trump is so over the top with his emotional rage that he forgot to say...
by annieli
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on Fri Feb 18, 2022 at 11:26 PM PST
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Canadian Primer Minister Justin Trudeau has quite wisely declined to risk sickness and death just so Trump can have a photo-op “celebrating” the new agreement between Canada, the US, and Mexico — which is pretty much the same as the old agreement, the...
by Dan K
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on Tue Jul 07, 2020 at 09:03 AM PDT
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President Trump’s tough talk is deepening domestic and international debate on how to transform world trade rules. Yet Democrats still struggle to articulate a compelling alternative agenda as its corporate-minded members remain convinced that the...
by Victor Menotti
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on Wed Jun 10, 2020 at 02:27 AM PDT
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Isolationism is a path well-travelled, but the results never have been efficacious. Based on fear and ignorance, invariably such tendencies of appeasement and willful ignorance of political realities too often have led to war. Geographically, the...
by JohnBAlexander
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on Thu Jun 04, 2020 at 04:00 PM PDT
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While the trade war with China has been getting all the attention, recent trade data out of Japan shows Trump’s anti-trade policies have been seriously hurting American farmers in the world’s 3rd largest economy. Notably, market share of meat and dairy...
by rufe
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on Thu Aug 22, 2019 at 12:22 AM PDT
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American farmers have been hit especially hard by Trump’s trade war with China. Soybean sales have at times been entirely cut off by the Chinese government and despite booming demand for pork due to disease in other regions, retaliatory tariffs on pork...
by rufe
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on Sun Aug 18, 2019 at 05:10 PM PDT
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Trump's trade war will cause deep, lasting losses for the United States. Russia, China, and Iran are all on the same continent. As we speak, they're constructing better highways, railways, and pipelines to facilitate trade with each other. Furthermore,...
by Rogueplanet
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on Wed Aug 07, 2019 at 10:06 AM PDT
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I was raised in a company house in a company town where the miners had to buy their own oilers – that is, rubber coveralls – drill bits and other tools at the company store.
That company, Inco Limited, the world’s leading producer of nickel for...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Thu Jul 11, 2019 at 12:14 PM PDT
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What has the Trump administration actually accomplished in terms of policy? It’s an important question, because by the time we decide whether The Man Who Lost The Popular Vote will get another term,
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun Jul 14, 2019 at 01:30 PM PDT
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Joe Biden claimed he is the most progressive candidate “running,” before he corrected himself — not about claiming he was the most progressive, but about running. That announcement obviously is soon.
This tweet sums up just a few of Biden’s less...
by TomP
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on Sun Mar 17, 2019 at 06:09 AM PDT
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Guest: Journalist David Dayen on new NAFTA, CA's new Net Neutrality law (and DoJ lawsuit), Amazon's new minimum wage; Also: Senate Repubs hope to force vote, bury FBI probe on U.S. Supreme Court nominee...
On today's BradCast, the FBI investigation...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Oct 02, 2018 at 06:28 PM PDT
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In desperate need of a fresh distraction, Donald Trump decided that Monday was the perfect day to announce his new trade deal with Mexico. Though there’s no deal. Negotiations actually appear to be only a bit further along than Trump’s “deal” for North...
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Aug 28, 2018 at 06:58 AM PDT
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The developed world doesn't trust President Trump. He may not trust large, multi-national trade agreements, but no country can trust Trump to negotiate in good faith one on one.
Under the radar, countries are binding together in trade agreements...
by john s mill
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on Tue Jul 31, 2018 at 05:56 PM PDT
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There are now really serious consequences from the trade wars Trump has incited with virtually all our major trading partners. The madness began on June 1, 2018 when he levied steel and aluminum tariffs on all our allies, including Canada, from whom...
by Tippy and Dad
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on Mon Aug 20, 2018 at 03:15 PM PDT
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Red-state GOP senators were super eager last week to tout the fact that Donald Trump had ordered his chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, to look into rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal Trump had scrapped last year. "Larry, go...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Apr 17, 2018 at 12:02 PM PDT
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"I hereby pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby"
Translation: Shut your mouths Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Cohen et al, I have unlimited pardon powers.
"We'll see..."
Translation: I'll probably do something stupid or maybe do nothing at all
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by andys120
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on Sun Apr 15, 2018 at 05:46 PM PDT
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What is there left to say? Seriously. After the last few days, most of us are really at a loss. Just think about a few of the things we’ve seen this week. Pursuant to a referral made by special ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun Apr 15, 2018 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Donald Trump’s new big play to gain negotiating strength against China on trade is to announce that he’ll start negotiating to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership. You know, the trade agreement he pulled out of after calling it a “rape of our...
by Laura Clawson
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on Fri Apr 13, 2018 at 07:09 AM PDT
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So Trump thinks he can just waltz back in to the TPP? I think it may be rather more difficult than he expects.
The only reason that the revised TPP agreement finally came together for the rest of the negotiating countries was because once the US...
by Th0rn
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on Thu Apr 12, 2018 at 09:09 PM PDT
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Also: Clueless Trump now to rejoin TPP?; Sinclair continues to abuse public airwaves; And, why local news matters...
On today's BradCast, it's like deja vu all over again. But with a Commander-in-Chief who is completely clueless about any of it and...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Apr 12, 2018 at 06:30 PM PDT
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