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@insiderussia

This Is The Last Chance To Buy A Car In #Russia | Russian Economy Weekly #Econ101 Review 🗞️

https://www.youtube.com/live/JqmHE1Jtg4A?si=NjEWB-delvvbuTnU

Ep 10/8/2025
#russia economy #ukrainewar
#RussiaIsCollapsing slowly

@atrupar.com

DOOCY: Why do you think the Chinese is buying up so much farmland so close to military installations?

TRUMP: I don't want to get into that. I have a very good relationship with President Xi. They're paying a lot of tariffs.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ltkdvkfv2e2o

( ed : Hint : SpiderWeb 🇺🇦🕸️ 3 revenge of the drones. 😉🤖 🇨🇳

Any why not under this administration defenses are down.

FYI El Presidente' they don't pay the tariffs - your citizens and small businesses do #Econ101 )

Money supply, inflation, employment, labor force, (net capital outflow == net exports)... I need to get back to my macroeconomics textbooks; I haven't thought about this stuff for a while. (Granted, standard economic models make many assumptions that are only approximately true) #economics #econ101

Money supply, inflation, employment, labor force, (net capital outflow == net exports)...

I need to get back to my macroeconomics textbooks; I haven't thought about this stuff for a while.

(Granted, standard economic models make many assumptions that are only approximately true)

#economics #econ101

@hanspetermeyer

And maybe send these small business owners a copy of Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson".

#economics #Economics101 #Econ101 #HenryHazlitt #OneLesson #ForDummies

@hanspetermeyer

And maybe send these small business owners a copy of Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson".

#economics #Economics101 #Econ101 #HenryHazlitt #OneLesson #ForDummies

@hanspetermeyer

And maybe send these small business owners a copy of Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson".

#economics #Economics101 #Econ101 #HenryHazlitt #OneLesson #ForDummies

@hanspetermeyer

And maybe send these small business owners a copy of Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson".

#economics #Economics101 #Econ101 #HenryHazlitt #OneLesson #ForDummies

@hanspetermeyer

And maybe send these small business owners a copy of Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson".

#economics #Economics101 #Econ101 #HenryHazlitt #OneLesson #ForDummies

@AdrianRiskin If you don't have some units vacant/unsold, you're not pricing high enough to maximize profits. #Econ101 The problem is that this conflicts with public interest goals of #housing everyone.

#realpage #rent #landlords

In related news, GM announced record savings by not making any cars. "It's like we're minting money!" shouts ecstatic exec. :ablobfoxdundundunowo:

#wb #strike #wgastrike #sagaftrastike #econ101

https://gizmodo.com/warner-bros-q2-earnings-strikes-david-zaslav-wga-sag-1850703857

Can someone explain to me like I’m 5?

If residential debt service is the largest contributor to inflation, then aren’t interest rate raises inflationary? At least until they trigger residential debt deleveraging through a wave of defaults/repos?

Is widespread bankruptcy the inevitable collateral damage?

#econ101 #economics #interestrates #explaintomelikeim5 #canpoli

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Capitalism gave us airplanes.

#capitalism #econ101 #airplane #WrightBrothers #freedom #progress #kittyhawk
(images PD; and CC-BY-SA-2.0, Bill Larkins)

He refers to OBR figures on spending. But welfare spending is a broad category. State pension is the biggest part of welfare spending.

If we decompose this data the figure that emerges looks very different.

1) Real #Pension spending shot up and was decoupled form the real economy (#TripleLock)

2) #Welfare spending was flat nominally & declined in real terms by around 30%.

This is what #austerity looks like.

If this was a #Econ101 assignment, this would be a clear fail.

But... there is a