Did Xi, Macron & Merkel Make US Stocks Great Again?

It's probably not Trump, or Invader Zim for that matter, making the world economy great again. There are any number of mysteries as to w...

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Deport-o-Mania 2: Houston's Rebuilding Labor Shortage

Is Donald Trump's America so hateful of immigrants that it'd rather slow Houston's reconstruction significantly? Being human aft...

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Deport-o-Mania: But Who'll Rebuild Houston?

Who'll rebuild Houston? With an immigration crackdown underway, it's a pretty big question. First off, I wish to extend my sympathy ...

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Canada's Plan to Keep NAFTA Alive and Kicking

The Yanqui villain is on the left. The Canadian [C] and Mexican [R] protagonists seek to defuse his worst tendencies. The commencement of th...

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Linking Depopulation and Debt in Puerto Rico, Illinois

Accumulating debt is the American way...even in a protectorate. The role of demographics in economics is often overlooked. However, there ar...

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Self-Hatred: Would-Be Latino Builders of Trump's Wall

As Eddie Money once sang, " Gimme Some Water ." To me, it's the most distasteful thing imaginable: why would persons of Latin ...

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TrumpCare: The Adios, Geezers "Health" Plan & IPE

I try not to focus excessively on US-only topics, but this I cannot resist since it has the potential to delay or waylay the rest of Trump...

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Pro-, Anti-Trade Voices Duke It Out at White House

Death by economic insanity: Maybe the lunatic fringe will be sidelined on trade, at least, at the White House. It was always going to end up...

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Missing Immigrants: How Trump Can Sink US Housing

The American Dream: Immigrants not welcome by order of Donald Trump. A climate of fear has descended among recent immigrants to the United S...

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Berlin Wall Redux: Asylum Seekers at US-Canada Border

Fleeing Trump's USA: Royal Canadian Mounted Police help Sudanese refugees reach a civilized nation. During the Cold War, the fulcrum upo...

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Xenophobe Trump Needs Migrants to Hit 3% GDP Growth

To generate growth, the US needs more rather than less people from abroad. The math is simple. Amidst the barely concealed xenophobia of Tru...

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Corporate Racket: Pretend to Leave Trump's USA

Wave this in front of the dimwit Trump and collect lots of government money. US President-elect Donald Trump's avowed interest in keepin...

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Trump Makes America #1 Environmental Rogue Regime Again

Welcome to the coalface, circa 2016 in TrumpWorld. As a lover of conspiracy theories, Donald Trump famously said that climate change is a ho...

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Trump + Business Savvy + Political Craft = Bloomberg

The guy in the middle has far more more stature than the one in the red cap. What's the world coming to when one of the United States...

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The 1 Percenter: 'Japanification' of US Treasuries

How low can you go? US Treasuries do the limbo rock. There's a depressing article in Bloomberg in which some Japanese prognosticators ...

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US Kills $150B Pfizer-Allergan Tax Avoidance Merger

Not gonna happen thanks to Uncle Sam's intervention. A few weeks ago, I had written about the impending pharmaceutical mega-merger of P...

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