Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Coffee Break: Across the Pond With the Starmer Government

 

at 4/7/25 12:00pm

Britain really needs a new government as the current Starmer government appears to be leading the country off a cliff with their policie

[Category: Banana republic, Coffee Break, Europe, Guest Post]

— Links 4/7/2025

 

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[Category: Links]

— Focus on Market Rout from Overvalued Levels Diverting Attention from Real Economy DOGE, Particularly Social Security and Depth of Tariff Damage

 

at 4/7/25 4:54am

The focus on the market rout pervesely distracts attention from Trump's massive and probably durable real economy destruction.

[Category: Economic fundamentals, Federal Reserve, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Income disparity, Investment outlook, Politics, The destruction of the middle class]

— ‘Greater Türkiye’ Faces Major Headwinds Abroad and at Home 

 

at 4/7/25 4:00am

Restless nationalists play role in protests at home while Türkiye runs up against US-backed Greater Israel in Syria. The great unknown: will the millions of Takfiris in Türkiye step into the ring? 

[Category: Europe, Middle East, Turkey]

— Trump Tariffs Run Over Already-Desperate Car Industry; Higher Prices, Job Cuts, and Supplier Closures Baked In

 

at 4/7/25 3:55am

The tariff situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of the car industry.

[Category: Auto industry, China, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Income disparity, Politics, Taxes, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class]

— Trade War Just Crashed Crude. Demand Might Be Next

 

at 4/7/25 2:00am

Are the tariffs more likely to change patterns in the global oil market than really kill oil demand?

[Category: China, Commodities, Energy markets, Globalization]

— Links 4/6/2025

 

at 4/6/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

— As Global Conflicts Rage, Has Neoliberalism Already Won? 

 

at 4/6/25 4:00am

If we look at the "Great Game" through the lens of internecine strife of the global neoliberal elite, does it matter who wins?

[Category: China, Doomsday scenarios, Globalization, Privatization, Russia, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class]

— USDA Cuts Hit Small Farms as Trump Showers Billions on Big Farms

 

at 4/6/25 3:00am

The dollars helped schools and food banks buy from small farmers, boosting the local food system.

[Category: Commodities, Guest Post, Market inefficiencies, Real estate, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class]

— Links 4/5/2025

 

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[Category: Links]

— Trump’s Tariffs Are Extremely Dumb, Just Not For The Reasons You Might Think

 

at 4/5/25 3:21am

The massive Trump tariffs are a con on a global scale. Trump is not rejecting the corporate trade model. He’s weaponizing it.

[Category: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class]

— Trump’s Non-Cooperative Game

 

at 4/5/25 2:56am

Game theorists do not take a kind view of how Trump is going about things.

[Category: Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, The dismal science]

— Coffee Break: The Powell Memo Kills American Science, Driving While Nonwhite Is Hazardous, and Science Can Recover but It Will Take Patience and Persistence.

 

at 4/4/25 12:00pm

Can medical science recover from the Powell memo and Project 2025 via slow science?

[Category: Coffee Break, Guest Post, Health care]

— Private Equity Shares Tank Based on Trump Tariffs; Private Equity and Credit Crises Coming?

 

at 4/4/25 7:55am

How the Trump tariffs will whack private equity, and even more so, investors like CalPERS and other public pension funds.

[Category: Credit markets, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Investment management, Private equity]

— Links 4/4/2025

 

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[Category: Links]

— Why Does the US Want Everyone’s Biometric Data (Regardless of Who Is in the White House)?

 

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And can it be trusted with it? (rhetorical question)

[Category: Guest Post]

— Why Does the Trump Administration Want Everyone’s Biometric Data?

 

at 4/4/25 4:45am

And can it be trusted with it? (rhetorical question)

[Category: Guest Post]

— Medicare Advantage Is Covering More and More Americans − Some Because They Don’t Get to Choose

 

at 4/4/25 3:50am

Another layer of the ongoing campaign to get more Americans to use private and generally inferior Medicare Advantage over Traditional Medicare

[Category: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Privatization, The destruction of the middle class]

— Another Trump Big Lie: “Reciprocal Tariffs”

 

at 4/4/25 12:47am

Further discussion of the delustions and misrepresentations of the Trump tariffs.

[Category: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science]

— Trump Deploys His Tariff Wrecking Ball; How Much Will the US Suffer Along with Most of the Rest of the World?

 

at 4/3/25 8:28am

The latest Trump tariffs kick up the destructiveness of his administration up to a whole new level.

[Category: Banana republic, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Investment outlook, Politics]

— Links 4/3/2025

 

at 4/3/25 4:55am

[Category: Links]

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