Doesn't that just mean that you don't buy many imported goods? According to Fortune Magazine: "The U.S. government is currently collecting tariff revenues at an annualized pace of roughly $350 billion, a “significant” amount, according to Torsten ...

Tariffs are pushing prices higher and consumers are feeling the hit, Fed’s Beige Book shows

The last few sentences in this last para is interesting. "As the economists predicted, the high tariff proved to be a disaster. Even before its enactment, U.S. trading partners began retaliating by raising their tariff rates, which froze ...

Trump: Without Tariffs, and all of the TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS we have already taken in, our...

Oh well, all good things have to come to an end sometime I suppose; before a major rebirth. He did his best. What more can you ask.

Trump: More than $15 trillion will be invested in the USA, a RECORD. Much of this investment...

So let's see how this plays out for US citizens. Let's assume the tariffs will stay and the Fed cuts the rate. So American consumers will benefit from lower mortgage repayments, but will suffer a double whammy for whatever they import - the tariff ...

Trump: All Tariffs Are Still In Effect!

So probably Cook's firing is also a political witch-hunt, this time from the MAGA Republicans rather than the left wing?

A 3rd Property!? Pulte Drops New Criminal Referral On Lisa Cook As Mortgage Scandal Widens

By this standard for Cook, why is Trump allowed to serve as President when he has been convicted of mis-stating his finances in order to secure better terms. The fines of over $400 million were repealed recently by an appeals court, but the ...

A 3rd Property!? Pulte Drops New Criminal Referral On Lisa Cook As Mortgage Scandal Widens

But hasn't Bessent said that the tariff income will be used primarily to pay back debt. So he must have another trick up his sleeve to pay for the tax cuts. Guess we will find out some day.

Bessent says U.S. tariff revenue could be well over US$500 billion a year

Ouch! So American import businesses and/or consumers are going to be hit with $500 billion in extra tariff taxes. Hopefully that will help to ease the pressure on US debt burden. But of course if the policy works and imports decline, so will the ...

Bessent says U.S. tariff revenue could be well over US$500 billion a year

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Trump to join Giuliani in PA: GOP state lawmakers "hearing" on allegations of fraud in...

I find it really strange that those who berate the traditional media as liars etc, are so sure that the social media stories they rely on for their views are real and not fabricated. Don't they realise that the vast bulk of these so-called exposes ...

Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, but is refusing to concede to Biden

I really don't understand why Americans are so paranoid about so-called socialist aspects of Democratic policies - like the Affordable Care Act. We have had an even better version of it in Australia for decades and we are your most trusted allies! I ...

Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, but is refusing to concede to Biden

Hhhmmmm... aren't all these guys rather nasty dictators and corrupt? So they are sad because they may have lost one of their own kindred spirits in the making?

Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, but is refusing to concede to Biden

So why then did the AUDUSD rate climb from 61 in 2009 to 110 in 2011? Can't have been dollar strength.

US dollar may be set for another damaging bout of strength

Australia has never been part of the EU but we have also lost our auto manufacturing industry. And as new previously low-cost countries joined the EU, their living standards and wages increased/were forced up as part of the "entry fee" thus reducing ...

Johnson's top aide says lawmakers can't stop no-deal Brexit - Sunday Telegraph

Sorry, got it wrong then. So better if England and Wales leave the UK leaving Northern Ireland and Scotland to look after themselves; perhaps they might ask to rejoin the EU for more handouts and hence also resolve the Irish border issue.

Johnson's top aide says lawmakers can't stop no-deal Brexit - Sunday Telegraph

Quoting Bones. "In theory a fall in the currency is a monetary stimulus to an economy open to international trade and investment. A weaker pound increases the sterling price of imported products and this increase in relative prices ought to improve ...

Johnson's top aide says lawmakers can't stop no-deal Brexit - Sunday Telegraph

No spin and half truths or rants, but yes we were a colony once. I do have this crazy vision however of Boris Johnson paragliding into Dublin and reclaiming Ireland to form the GUK (Greater UK). Then this whole sticking point with the Irish backstop ...

Johnson's top aide says lawmakers can't stop no-deal Brexit - Sunday Telegraph

But of course that is not the complete picture. So it is more a question of whether you want to be a team player for the good of the wider Union and emerging economic partners, or whether you just complain and ignore the greater contributions made ...

Johnson's top aide says lawmakers can't stop no-deal Brexit - Sunday Telegraph

Given how unreliable and difficult the UK has been over EU membership, it is a pity that France did not stick to its guns in the 60's and continued to veto UK membership. But UK begged so hard that France finally relented. And now UK just wants to ...

Johnson's top aide says lawmakers can't stop no-deal Brexit - Sunday Telegraph

Should expect a tweet from Trump soon announcing her sacking.

Statement from Esther George