just your daily reminder that the tariffs that caused the Great Depression were half the size of Trump’s tarrifs. Idiots. #auspol #economy

Trump's attacks against Canada, the EU, and other friendly countries is resulting in lost business revenue as they look elsewhere for purchases and look to revaluate and/or cancel existing business.

https://apnews.com/article/f35-canada-trump-0d3bf192d3490d87570d48475ff2c3a6
#Trump #TradeWar #Canada #EU #Business #Economy #AmericaLast #USA

the percentage of american consumers who think business conditions are worsening has hit its highest point since stats started being collected 45 years ago.

#Trump says the #economy ‘went to hell’ #under Biden. The opposite is true - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/16/trump-biden-economy "By standard measures such as job and GDP growth and the stock market, the US economy was in excellent shape" but millions of muricans don't know or don't care about the facts...

This week's comic: Playing the wealth card

Hehe #lol #funny #memes #humour #jokes #economy #eattherich #NoBillionaires #billionaires #evil #capitalism #politics #trump #Politicalmemes

Britain ‘no longer a rich country’ after living standards plunge

Parts of the UK are now worse off than the poorest regions of Slovenia and Lithuania

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/12/britain-no-longer-rich-country-after-living-standard-plunge/

After #COVID I learned about systems thinking, and it shaped my approach to thinking about the #economy. I wrote a blog post to talk about an important concept: Goal displacement, which happens when we build systems that indefinitely maximize for abstract goals like efficiency, over long time horizons.

#philosophy #ethics #capitalism

https://misaligned.markets/mammon-as-maloptimization/

Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future
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For years, Washington, D.C., was insulated from many of the economic forces that decimated many older U.S. cities. Now, as Elon Musk’s mass layoffs shake everything from employment to real estate, the region faces the prospect of decline.
https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-dc-trump-musk-federal-government-cutbacks-gloomy-future?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Despite soaring egg prices, Texas shoppers looking for a cascarón, or confetti egg, this Easter won’t have to worry about paying more — at least not this year.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/03/12/515846/cue-the-confetti-cascaron-prices-hold-steady-for-easter-despite-rising-egg-costs/