“While models of international trade generally assume that trade will balance itself over time, the United States has run persistent current account deficits for five decades, indicating that the core premise of most trade models is incorrect.”
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Reciprocal Tariff Calculations
Executive Summary Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners. This calculation assumes that pe...
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April 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
“While models of international trade generally assume that trade will balance itself over time, the United States has run persistent current account deficits for five decades, indicating that the core premise of most trade models is incorrect.”
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You got to be kidding me…
I'm going to go with "too much"
April 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
You got to be kidding me…
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I joined Ali Velshi last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour to discuss the Chief Justice’s rebuke of the President. I explained that America is in a constitutional crisis when, rather than faithfully executing the laws, the President of the United States is defying the laws.
March 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I joined Ali Velshi last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour to discuss the Chief Justice’s rebuke of the President. I explained that America is in a constitutional crisis when, rather than faithfully executing the laws, the President of the United States is defying the laws.
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This is an absolute scandal.
Trump and Marco Rubio abandoned American workers and their families abroad, delaying waivers to provide for their safe return to the United States.
As these civil servants lost their possessions, housing, and money, Elon Musk was slandering them with bogus accusations.
Trump and Marco Rubio abandoned American workers and their families abroad, delaying waivers to provide for their safe return to the United States.
As these civil servants lost their possessions, housing, and money, Elon Musk was slandering them with bogus accusations.
Via Robbie Gramer at Politico, in a legal filing a USAID employee details trying to leave Kinshasa, Congo with their family and leaving their possessions behidn amid panic created by Trump and Musk's sudden shutdown of the agency
February 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is an absolute scandal.
Trump and Marco Rubio abandoned American workers and their families abroad, delaying waivers to provide for their safe return to the United States.
As these civil servants lost their possessions, housing, and money, Elon Musk was slandering them with bogus accusations.
Trump and Marco Rubio abandoned American workers and their families abroad, delaying waivers to provide for their safe return to the United States.
As these civil servants lost their possessions, housing, and money, Elon Musk was slandering them with bogus accusations.
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“Russia has committed a triple crime: it bombed out Syria, temporarily occupied a part of Ukraine, and is currently selling Ukrainian grain it has stolen there to Syria,” the Ukrainian foreign ministry said in May 2022.
[Syria ⚓️ Feed](bsky.app/profile/did:...)
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Russian vessel reroutes Ukrainian stolen wheat cargo from Syria to Egypt – OCCRP
A Russian company with a history of selling grain from occupied Ukrainian territories exported over 20,000 tons of wheat to Egypt last month.
euromaidanpress.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“Russia has committed a triple crime: it bombed out Syria, temporarily occupied a part of Ukraine, and is currently selling Ukrainian grain it has stolen there to Syria,” the Ukrainian foreign ministry said in May 2022.
[Syria ⚓️ Feed](bsky.app/profile/did:...)
[Syria ⚓️ Feed](bsky.app/profile/did:...)
@ariellaelm.bsky.social hi! Do you have any threads on what we can do to support media outlets that are reporting on the current state of the world? Subscriptions, likes, thank-you emails of support? I don’t know what’s helpful but I want to do something.
February 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
@ariellaelm.bsky.social hi! Do you have any threads on what we can do to support media outlets that are reporting on the current state of the world? Subscriptions, likes, thank-you emails of support? I don’t know what’s helpful but I want to do something.