Tariffs Return with a Vengeance

Tariffs Return with a Vengeance? The stock market, which had been merrily rolling along since the tariff issues subsided in April, was jolted on Friday by President Trump’s threat of ‘massive’ tariff increases on China. What had appeared resolved with China, albeit temporarily, is back in the forefront. On Truth Social, the President wrote: “Some […]
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We Choose to go to the Moon | April 2, 2022

We Choose to go to the Moon The plan for a deeply connected, just-in-time, global supply chain that will lower costs for everyone took a hard punch when Donald Trump was elected President, but the pandemic and the Ukraine war have now struck mighty blows and ‘the plan’ is getting tossed. The global economy appears […]
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The New Cold War | March 12, 2022

Short-Term Humanitarian Problem & Long-Term Economic Problem Hopes were raised, then dashed, and raised yet again this week as President Zelensky took NATO off the table for Ukraine and put a new negotiation on the table. The potential glitch appears to be the demand that ‘not one inch’ of Ukraine is lost (we’re unsure where […]
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