Der Ruf als stabilisierende Wirtschaftsmacht, den die USA in der Welt genossen, hat unter Trump ebenfalls erheblich gelitten. Das Anzweifeln des Klimawandels und die nachlassende Unterstützung internationaler Institutionen wie IWF und Weltbank tragen weiter dazu bei, das der Glaube an Amerikas Engagement für die globale Zusammenarbeit schwindet. Der schwedische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Lars Pålsson Syll sieht die […]
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Though relationships are grounded in shared memories, some gaps and inaccuracies can help us live well in a social world
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In my mother’s hoarding house, I found something I wanted to keep
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•U.S. 20Y Yield: Spiked to 5.097%, up +10.7 bps intraday. •10Y Yield: Rose +11.1 bps to 4.592% •30Y Yield: Jumped +10 bps to 5.067%
This caused stocks to trend down and even the dollar. Simply put the US is adding a lot of debt, reducing revenue by cutting taxes and there’s wild amounts of uncertainties due to Trump’s tariff and trade policies. Bond traders are worried, Japan is reducing its Treasuries holdings, and everyone is looking imploringly at the Federal Reserve.
As a friend quipped “the economy is perfectly healthy, as long as we keep it on life support.”
Which is to say the likely result is that the Federal Reserve will have to step up and start buying Treasuries again. The last time it did that was during Covid.
“Print more money to bail out elites.”
In Tehran, bewildered diplomats told me they suspect the Trump administration is exploiting nuclear negotiations as a instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran’s economy and foment social strife With nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Iran’s Reformist government at a standstill, I held two separate, lengthy background conversations in Tehran this past week with a pair of seasoned Iranian diplomats with detailed knowledge of the talks in Muscat, Oman. Like most Iranians, the diplomats were eager for a […]
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National party leader (for now), David Littleproud, has told journalists that his party won’t be rejoining the Coalition until lead petrol is flowing freely in the bowsers of petrol stations around the country. ”Australian’s are sick to death of not... Read More ›
Coinbase waited months to inform consumers it had sold their data to criminals while changing its terms of service to limit future class-action lawsuits.
The tech giant didn’t just lock an ICC prosecutor out of his email. It’s been building tools for Israel’s wars while silencing dissent at home.
The post Microsoft’s Role in Gaza Goes Way Beyond the ICC Email Lockout appeared first on MintPress News.
Research with transgender people sheds light on the memory processes that allow any of us to navigate periods of change
- by Caleb Schlaupitz
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May 21st, 2025: I am in the woods of Juneau Alaska for COMICS CAMP! Recordings reveal a finance executive claiming he offered Trump’s IRS nominee Billy Long an inauguration ticket — and was promised tax benefits if confirmed.
Here’s the thing, Rogan could lean left (not centrist, left). Remember this? Senators are challenging Trump’s IRS pick Billy Long, repeatedly citing The Lever's reporting on his shady industry donors and plans to weaponize the IRS against his political enemies.
On May 5th, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute held its annual fundraising gala. The event showcases the extraordinary imaginations of people who design exorbitant clothes and the gutsiness of those who dare (and can afford) to wear them. I’m dimly aware of this annual extravaganza because of my interest in knitting, spinning, and weaving — the crafts involved in turning fluff into yarn and yarn into cloth. Mind you, I have no flair for fashion myself. I could never carry off wearing the simplest of ballgowns and I’m way too short to rock a tuxedo. My own personal style runs to 1970s White Dyke. (Think blue jeans and flannel shirts.) But I remain fascinated by what... Read more Source: No More Dog Whistles appeared first on TomDispatch.com. One of the things so compelling about Margaret Ross’s Saturday is her obsessive fidelity to a purity of description: “Beige clouds in a greenish sky / seen through cheap sunglasses.” To that, she adds an instability of syntax and line break that she makes into a thing of cool beauty. Here’s a couple of stanzas at the end of “A Present,” a title whose multiple possible meanings is also a sign of Ross’s themes and capacities:
The sentences, measured but already somehow headlong, roll against and over the ends of the lines. Sentences do not match the length of line. Sometimes these two elements dance, and sometimes they quarrel. Here they are dancing, at the beginning of “New York”: I’ve lived in this city for decades, but I’m noticing more and more problems. There’s crowding, congestion, changing people, tall buildings, and the biggest problem: This city is a literal city. I love living in a city, but I hate dealing with other people. I shouldn’t be subject to the whims of my neighbors, something I constantly scream at them during city council meetings. You can’t walk down the street without seeing some new expensive building going up. It’s all I can think about until I’m safely ensconced in my million-dollar apartment, scornfully looking down at the construction. I don’t recognize anyone in my neighborhood anymore! Why do the kids I used to know seem to grow taller, look older, and move away? I need every political candidate to clarify their position on the passage of linear time. It wasn’t always like this. I moved to this city as a wide-eyed twenty-year-old, ready to take on the world with energetic abandon. Now, I’m no longer twenty years old. Something really has changed with this city.
Clanking cowboys, hard-working women and fighting dogs populate the landscape of an Aboriginal artist’s childhood - A film by Grace Kemarre Robinya and Jonathan Daw
The end of a friendship cracked me apart, triggering hidden memories – and helping me heal old wounds - by Antonia Malchik | ||
