Part 1 of a 3-part series covering how Australia and Canada are attempting to reign in control of the Internet, including a bit of history of how we got to where we are.
From the "If You're Listening" team, who I've found provide very clear and easy to understand presentations of complex / complicated topics.
Knowing these things is important in perpetuity. The music (and movie) industry seems to attract sociopaths.
Probably because there's the potential for a lot of money movement and musicians (and other artists) aren't generally focused on "business" as their ball game, hence they're ripe for exploitation.
Parents who sit in their idling cars for (fucking) ages while their cars are facing the tennis courts thus blinding the player on the other side of the court for however long it takes them to either turn their car off, drive off, or someone to tell them turn their fucking headlights off.
A telling data point to keep in mind, useful in various different contexts, is the contrast between what is being kept secret and what is being made openly public.
In this case:
- cuts to government spending are being made public (with little accuracy checking)
- additions to government spending are being kept secret
Was there a tender process for this? That information would generally be somewhat public (as in various private companies would need to know about it in order to quote).
Is it normal for NDAs to new signed for this kind of thing?
For me the most interesting thing is the seeming rush to buy new cars before the tariffs cause significantly increased prices, where the interesting part will be whether new car sales absolutely crash in the next quarter or two.
That would just be a demand shift. The bigger risk is whether people who might have otherwise bought a new car keep their current car because of recession and stagflation fears.
In economics they call them "durable goods". The demand is usually extra reactive to price changes because you can choose when to replace it in a wide band of time.
Interesting as someone with an interest in how political decisions affect markets, and how markets respond both emotionally and logically at the same time.
No answers to anything though. We'll just have to wait and see what the outcome is.
I'm guessing this is a dead cat bounce and undeniable recession will hit, although there will be a lot of denial as to whether we're in a recession or we just went through a small recession and it's over now (much like: "this inflation is transitory").
> as someone with an interest in how political decisions affect markets...
What I find interesting in the economic field is how, across schools of thought, even those that are ideologically opposed (e.g., Marxism vs. the Austrian School), the narrative can be reduced to the actions or decisions of very few individuals.
He was only 21. Besides being brainwashed by anti-Americanism, it was probably also something of a delayed adolescent rebellion against his CIA family.
No. Buffet had been exiting positions to cash for a few months.
My impression is that he started that process once he got a whiff of the possibility of a second Trump term in combination with the likelihood of an incoming recession (based on historic indicators), no matter who won the presidential race.
That's smart as opposed to well connected / insider trading.
"The free-market system, Hamm reminded Hitler, was based on trust, the rule of law, and adherence to contractual obligations."
Grimace emoji.
"But Hitler made no effort to reassure the markets, insisting that the tariffs were necessary and that he needed time to fix the ruined country his predecessors had left him."
From the "If You're Listening" team, who I've found provide very clear and easy to understand presentations of complex / complicated topics.
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