https://www.europesays.com/3285780/ I asked the White House’s new AI chatbot about tariffs. It told the truth. #business #FreeMarkets #FreeTrade #tariffs #taxes #TradeWar #TrumpAdministration #WhiteHouse
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Can you sell your kidney? Not legally—but maybe you should be able to.
About 4,000 people in America die every year while waiting for kidney transplants. More than 95,000 currently need…
#NewsBeep #News #Healthcare #AU #Australia #freemarkets #Health #organtransplants
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Can you sell your kidney? Not legally—but maybe you should be able to.
About 4,000 people in America die every year while waiting for kidney transplants. More than 95,000 currently need…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #FreeMarkets #Health #organtransplants
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/699402/ Can you sell your kidney? Not legally—but maybe you should be able to. #Éire #FreeMarkets #Health #HealthCare #Healthcare #IE #Ireland #OrganTransplants
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No, cutting off trade with Europe would not make America wealthier
Americans are accustomed to Donald Trump’s tall tales, as he recently told an improbable story about firemen lifting…
#Europe #EU #Canada #DonaldTrump #EuropeanUnion #FreeMarkets #freetrade #Trumpadministration
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https://www.europesays.com/people/215359/ Trump is expanding executive power. Democrats are already eyeing the new tools. #canada #DonaldTrump #Election2028 #FreeMarkets #FreeTrade #GavinNewsom #JDVance #TrumpAdministration
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Caller Teams With AI To Explain Why Free Markets Do Not Require Capitalism
A caller uses AI and Planet A Foods to expose how capitalism captures innovation while democratic free enterprise empowers workers, consumers, and communities.
#AI #AntiCapitalism #ArtificialIntelligence #BarryCallebaut #CallerUsesAI #capitalism #ChoViva #CooperativeEconomics #DemocraticEconomy #EconomicDemocracy #freeEnterprise #FreeMarkets #innovation #MarketSocialism #Mutualism #PlanetAFoods #PoliticsDoneRight #ProgressivePolitics #StartupFunding #VentureCapital #WorkerCooperatives #WorkerOwnership https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-p6L -
Bonus: there are some brilliant (and often laugh-out-loud) metaphors and turns of phrase, which are their own reward for listening to this – it isn't just informational medicine to choke down.
#enshittification #antitrust #siliconvalley #oligarchs #freemarkets
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@b Instead what we find consistently is the tyranny of low cost, where absent some exogenous pressure (regulations, occasionally lawsuits, competition regulation), one or a small number of high-volume, low-cost production centres come to dominate an industry.
I've looked into this a bit, and noticed that interestingly it's the goods and services which are most ephemeral which end up most concentrated, again, absent other factors.
Publishing. Cinema. Music. Banking. Software. Geopolitical hegemony. Advertising. Social media. Increasingly manufacturing, especially anything with microchips.
Many of those are associated with specific locations: New York, Hollywood, Nashville, New York, Silicon Valley, Washington, DC., Taiwan.
Though there may be exceptions. Taking cinema (you could also look at banking): Hollywood is the global capital, but there are regional centres as well: Bollywood, China, and within Europe fairly strong traditions in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, etc. What gives?
Language and culture. Hollywood translates well, but not specifically to other cultures. Bollywood with all its flamboyant ridiculousness caters specifically to Indian tastes. Similar trends have emerged in Japanese, Chinese, Persian, Spanish, and other cultures (widely-used language groups favour this). There are natural cleavage lines.
Banking has a similar split largely due to regulatory regimes. In the US, banking centralisation followed lifting of restrictions on cross-state banking (banks were previously restricted to a single state). Rather than fostering diversity, of course, that promoted monopolisation. And if you look at banking systems, @briankrebs has pointed out that there is a single-digit set of 3--4 vendors for those systems.
Similar software concentrations in ERP (enterprise resource planning): SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and a bunch of also-rans., or in healthcare with EMR/EHR (electronic medical/health records), with Epic dominating the US.
If you want diversity you've got to regulate, probably with differentiation on a regional basis, to get it, AND break up monopolies.
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#FreeMarkets #Capitalism #ConsumerChoice #Diversity #Monopoly
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@b The only one part of that which I have a quibble with is Smith promising diversity.
I've read him pretty closely, and don't recall that being one of his significant points.
Lots of other people have touted technology as fostering options over time, whether geographic (Arthur C. Clarke, in the 1960s, promising that we could work from anywhere), the promise of fully-customised products (1990s/aughts), including repeated failed attempts at custom-fit clothing (there are a very few places offering this, but it's both rare and expensive), etc., etc.
#FreeMarkets #Capitalism #ConsumerChoice #Diversity #Monopoly
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Our choice is not between free markets and state control, for most adults spend their working lives controlled by a third thing entirely: private government.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2019/05/private-government
#FreeMarkets #StateControl #PrivateGovernment #FacilitatingConnection
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Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers. -
Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, and the WNBA’s publicity problem https://www.rawchili.com/5058077/ #FreeMarkets #media #MediaCriticism #ncaa #regulation #WNBA #women
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Government owning the means of production was only tyranny when #MAGA imagined a Democrat doing it.
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US economic adviser: Free people and free markets is prosperity – VIDEO https://www.byteseu.com/2170788/ #America #capitalism #EconomicPower #economy #FreeMarkets #socialism #US
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Latin Americans catch MAGA fever as US lefties push the policies they’re ditching
South and Central Americans have caught MAGA fever big-time, even as many lefties in the United States push…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #Argentina #CentralAmerica #Chile #Colombia #Crime #DonaldTrump #drugs #editorial #FreeMarkets #gangs #JavierMilei #Latinamerica #opinion #Perú #SouthAmerica
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https://www.europesays.com/3081915/ Latin Americans catch MAGA fever as US lefties push the policies they’re ditching #Argentina #CentralAmerica #Chile #Colombia #Conflicts #Crime #DonaldTrump #drugs #editorial #FreeMarkets #gangs #JavierMilei #LatinAmerica #opinion #Perú #SouthAmerica
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Trump wants tariffs to fight ‘structural excess capacity.’ Here’s why.
Every year, there are many more airplanes manufactured in the United States than the country’s domestic airlines can…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #China #FreeMarkets #freetrade #theWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration
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https://www.europesays.com/3067332/ Trump wants tariffs to fight ‘structural excess capacity.’ Here’s why. #China #FreeMarkets #FreeTrade #TheWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration
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Even an AI-sparked economic miracle will not save the federal budget https://www.byteseu.com/2112867/ #Automation #Budget #BudgetCuts #BudgetDeficit #economy #ElonMusk #FreeMarkets #GovernmentSpending #InterestRates #productivity #SiliconValley #SocialSecurity
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i'm sidestepping pro- / anti- capitalist arguments
i'm saying #capitalism is dead
there is the fantasy foundational belief of " #freeMarkets"
they have always been manipulated
(especially with #regulations removed, which #capitalists always seem excited to do, resulting in the biggest players controlling it)
#plutocracy replaced capitalism
idiots didn't notice
they merely adopted a lie:
"this is capitalism!"
behavior: not capitalism, just licking plutocrat boots
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Our choice is not between free markets and state control, for most adults spend their working lives controlled by a third thing entirely: private government.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2019/05/private-government
#FreeMarkets #StateControl #PrivateGovernment #FacilitatingConnection
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So Google's massive revenues are no longer sufficient to fund its AI spending spree.
The Guardian is reporting it's going to issue US$80 billion in new shares, including the US$10 billion it's selling to Berkshire Hathaway.
Let's put that number into context.
Imagine a person who earns a good wage, say $100,000 a year on average throughout their working life.
If they work full time for 40 years, that's $4 million in lifetime wages.
If you add together the lifetime earnings of 1000 such people, you get to $4 billion.
At $80 billion, Google is asking for the lifetime wages of 20,000 workers on a good income.
That's an obscene amount of money!
If we're in a bubble right now, then it's inflating a ridiculous amount.
"The move, the largest equity fundraising ever according to analysts, includes a $10bn share sale to the US investment group Berkshire Hathaway, which was led until last year by the investment guru Warren Buffett.
"Alphabet, which is behind the Gemini system that has been increasing its share of the AI chatbot market, said it would use the money to expand its “world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet its unprecedented customer demand”.
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"Nicholas Hyett, the lead alternatives analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the planned stock sale was much larger than previous secondary share sales, and would also raise more money than the largest stock market flotations, known as initial public offering (IPOs).
"'Alphabet’s $80bn fundraise dwarfs the world’s largest IPOs, often the moment of maximum excitement when companies seek to fill their financial war chests,' he said. 'In fact, if successful, it would raise more than the world’s three largest initial public offerings put together – Saudi Aramco raised $25.6bn when it debuted on the Saudi exchange in 2019; Alibaba raised $21.8bn on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014; and SoftBank raised $21.3bn when it listed in Tokyo in 2018.
"'We can’t think of a secondary issue that would even come close to matching the ambition of this fundraise … and there just aren’t many companies in the world that have the ability to spend that amount of money productively.'
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"However, such a huge fundraising is also a warning to the markets that for all the many billions of dollars thrown at AI infrastructure, meaningful returns to investors have so far been limited."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/02/google-alphabet-sell-stock-ai-share-sale-berkshire-hathaway
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https://www.europesays.com/3032559/ ‘How To Win a Trade War’? Lose less than your opponents. #brexit #business #China #DonaldTrump #FreeMarkets #FreeTrade #globalism #globalization #tariffs #TradeWar #TrumpAdministration
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It is an axiom that you get less of what you tax. Tariffs (really a kind of excise tax) are a textbook example of the United States getting less of what it taxes, namely raw materials from abroad ... and rubber.
#DonaldTrump #economics #freeMarkets #freeTrade #NorthCarolina #tariffs #taxation #Thailand #TrumpAdministration #USPolitics
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"Sweden is choosing capitalism. Social spending as percentage of GDP is now 24%, lower than most of Northern Europe. Sweden has surpassed the US in billionaires per capita. School choice is universal, one in ten teens goes to a school operated by a company listed on the Stockholm stock exchange. Taxes have been cut three years in a row. Sweden has seen "more than 500 [IPOs] over the 10 years through 2024, more than Germany, France, the Netherlands and Spain combined"
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Sound money and free markets punish bad bets early. Central planning just punishes everyone later through inflation’s hidden tax. #economy #SoundMoney #FreeMarkets
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@alineblankertz Relevant to the claim on your wall: [@georgemonbiot\.bsky\.social](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/georgemonbiot.bsky.social) Why Neoliberalism given captive markets are not free? It is after all the Neoconservatives of both parties who have and are selling us out to antitrust monopolies and their fascist tech lords. [\#Neoliberalism](https://universeodon.com/tags/Neoliberalism) [\#Neoconservatism](https://universeodon.com/tags/Neoconservatism) [\#Neocons](https://universeodon.com/tags/Neocons) [\#Neofascists](https://universeodon.com/tags/Neofascists) [\#Neonazis](https://universeodon.com/tags/Neonazis) [\#CaptiveMarkets](https://universeodon.com/tags/CaptiveMarkets) [\#DoublespeakEmpires](https://universeodon.com/tags/DoublespeakEmpires)
[\#FreeMarkets](https://universeodon.com/tags/FreeMarkets) [\#EthicalMarkets](https://universeodon.com/tags/EthicalMarkets) [\#EthicalMarketsAreFree](https://universeodon.com/tags/EthicalMarketsAreFree) -
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social Why Neoliberalism given captive markets are not free? It is after all the Neoconservatives of both parties who have and are selling us out to antitrust monopolies and their fascist tech lords. #Neoliberalism #Neoconservatism #Neocons #Neofascists #Neonazis #CaptiveMarkets #DoublespeakEmpires
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ONLY THE RICH CAN AFFORD TO BE LIBERAL
I have no formal training in political theory. I haven't read Rawls or Locke. My political education came from living around poor people, middle class people, people with caste and religion, people fighting for survival with whatever ideology was available. So my views aren't academic. I think liberalism is something only people with money can afford to believe in. I grew up around people who couldn't afford the luxury of abstract politics. When your problem is whether you'll eat tomorrow […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/only-the-rich-can-afford-to-be-liberal/
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The data center water panic has a better answer: Water markets
https://reason.com/2026/03/24/the-data-center-water-panic-has-a-better-answer-water-markets/#DataCenters #ArtificialIntelligence #WaterMarkets #Economics #Sustainability #PublicPolicy #TechNews #Environment #FreeMarkets #Infrastructure
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On this day, 250 years ago, Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith laid the first groundwork for classical economics with his magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations, which challenged the prevailing European attitude favoring mercantilism. A full copy can be read on Wikisource (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations).
#year1776 #AdamSmith #classicalEconomics #freeMarkets #liberalism #mercantilism #TheWealthOfNations
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Our choice is not between free markets and state control, for most adults spend their working lives controlled by a third thing entirely: private government.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2019/05/private-government
#FreeMarkets #StateControl #PrivateGovernment #FacilitatingConnection
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Do you object to what #ICE and the #DHS are doing? Do you wonder why both #democrat and #republican administrations have supported them for decades? Are you looking for an #alternative?
You might be a #libertarian.
#freeminds, #freemarkets, and #peace.
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😬😓:
“Adam Smith Is Misinterpreted And His Influence Overstated”, The Economist (https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/adam-smith-is-misinterpreted-and-his-influence-overstated or https://archive.is/hQpRa).
#Economics #Capitalism #FreeMarkets #AdamSmith #TheWealthOfNations #Legacy #Books #InvisibleHand
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Killing drug ads won’t lower prices — it will kill innovation
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"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever-and still, things can go spectacularly wrong."
https://sidneydekker.com/compliance-capitalism
#HatTip to @dtauvdiodr for the reference.
#FreeTrade #FreeMarkets #neoliberalism #corporatism #SidneyDekker
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ICYMI - PERRY: City lawmakers snubbing free market system in Aurora is bad business
‘The truth is simple. Businesses don’t create blight. Blight creates business conditions’
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ICYMI - PERRY: City lawmakers snubbing free market system in Aurora is bad business
‘The truth is simple. Businesses don’t create blight. Blight creates business conditions’
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PERRY: City lawmakers snubbing free market system in Aurora is bad business
'The truth is simple. Businesses don’t create blight. Blight creates business conditions'
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PERRY: City lawmakers snubbing free market system in Aurora is bad business
'The truth is simple. Businesses don’t create blight. Blight creates business conditions'
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Our choice is not between free markets and state control, for most adults spend their working lives controlled by a third thing entirely: private government.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2019/05/private-government
#FreeMarkets #StateControl #PrivateGovernment #FacilitatingConnection
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Where lawful corporate governance ends and the personalist regime begins
I embarrassed myself when, back in January, I asked whether wind energy investors had standing to sue the Trump administration over a presidential memorandum pausing all federal approvals for wind power development. I was suffering at the time from the delusion — common to most writers, I suppose — that readers would respond or at least consider the point. Instead, crickets. I guess it was what the experts would call a dumb question, which wouldn’t be the first one I’ve asked and won’t be the last, or it just wasn’t the sort of thing that grabs people’s attention nowadays. (I would never claim to have my finger on the popular pulse.) In any case, it was a failed bid.
I was, however, on to something. I just didn’t know what, but now I think I have a slightly better idea. It’s not only that Trump’s Quixotic madness about windmills has been on full display ever since; “adverse market development in the US,” as an Ørsted executive euphemistically puts it, has interrupted big projects like Empire Wind and sent wind energy stocks plummeting. It’s also that Trump continues to assert his (unlawful) prerogative to control and extort companies, whole industries, and markets.
Acting arbitrarily, corruptly (witness the Paramount or Tim Cook bribes), and with undisguised prejudice, Trump is trying to replace the invisible hand that we were supposed to believe was at work in the free market with his own bruised, rotting Chaos Monkey paw.
He has reserved for his regime a “golden share” as a condition for approving deals (auguring “a ‘meaningful shift’ in America’s approach to capital markets,” as a writer in the FT delicately puts it), spooked investors by calling unflattering economic data rigged, imposed import and export taxes with unfair exemptions for cronies and flatterers, arrogated to himself powers reserved for boards (witness the call, last week, for the CEO of Intel to step down), and repeatedly offended shareholder rights and prerogatives.
L’actionnaire c’est moi, or something like that, and though boards have gotten very good at ignoring ordinary investors, they are hardly known for standing up to this kind of political pressure. As for CEOs, they have shown that they are all too ready to capitulate and collude.
This non-stop chaos, oafish meddling, and strong-arm interference may at times look clownish, but it will have serious consequences. Sure, it creates “uncertainty” (the rhetorical fig leaf the business press uses when the Chaos Monkey exposes himself), and of course it will lead to misallocation of capital. But that’s hardly the main trouble.
It marks the spot where lawful corporate governance (such as we knew it) ends and the personalist regime begins.
Greg Ip, with whom I usually disagree, appears to make a fair point when he calls this “State Capitalism with American Characteristics,” but I would prefer State Capitalism with Coherent Industrial Policy to to what we actually have, and Ip’s label doesn’t quite capture the personalist element: L’etat c’est moi donc l’actionnaire c’est moi, or something like that.
Let’s just say that it looks like we are heading for — or perhaps we are already in the throes of — a full-blown governance crisis. It may already be too late to push back, but it sure would be nice to see boards and big institutional investors try.
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Our choice is not between free markets and state control, for most adults spend their working lives controlled by a third thing entirely: private government.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2019/05/private-government
#FreeMarkets #StateControl #PrivateGovernment #FacilitatingConnection
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US inflation reaches 2.7% as Trump tariffs hit https://www.ft.com/content/65b1fb44-6391-4f74-82db-2d7eb6aaafa9
hmm. latest US report shows inflation is being pushed up by tarrifs. wasn’t inflation to be done on day one???????????????????????????????????????#liars #economicbaffoons #freemarkets
