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Political Cartoon Gallery<p>Mike Ramirez @Ramirez on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TrumpTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com</p>
Calvin Taplay 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🇲🇽<p>Even though I would hate to see 35 percent tariffs applied to Canada, I firmly stand with the country and its citizens. This is the worst betrayal Canadians have faced from their friends, family and neighbours in the United States in 95 years at the very deepest point in the Great Depression. We are the truth north strong and free. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elbowsup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elbowsup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a></p>
Alo Japan<p><a href="https://www.alojapan.com/1330507/trumps-tariffs-and-japan-deal-could-encourage-toyota-to-move-jobs-out-of-u-s/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alojapan.com/1330507/trumps-ta</span><span class="invisible">riffs-and-japan-deal-could-encourage-toyota-to-move-jobs-out-of-u-s/</span></a> Trump’s tariffs and Japan deal could encourage Toyota to move jobs out of U.S. <a href="https://channels.im/tags/automobiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>automobiles</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BlueCollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlueCollar</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FreeMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMarkets</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/imports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imports</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JapanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JapanNews</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JapaneseNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseNews</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a> Over the past few decades, Japan-based automaker Toyota has spent billions of dollars to expand its manufacturing and assembly plants in the United States. Those plants now employ over 64,000 people across North Am</p>
Lyle Solla-Yates<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250723174703/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-outdated-elevator-rules-are-adding-to-the-housing-crisis/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2025072317</span><span class="invisible">4703/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-outdated-elevator-rules-are-adding-to-the-housing-crisis/</span></a> “Strict size requirements backfire when developers choose to forgo accessibility entirely and just build townhouses or small walk-up apartment buildings.” <a href="https://cville.online/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>housing</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/elevator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elevator</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/BuildingCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuildingCode</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/shortage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shortage</span></a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a></p>
News Beep<p>August 1 is hard deadline Trump tariffs</p><p>Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce speaks during the Pennsylvania Energy And Innovation Summit 2025 at Carnegie Mellon…<br><a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/NewsBeep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewsBeep</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Headlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Headlines</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/BreakingNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BreakingNews</span></a>:Economy <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/BreakingNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BreakingNews</span></a>:Politics <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/businessnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>businessnews</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/donald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>donald</span></a>-j-trump <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elections</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/HowardLutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowardLutnick</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Latvia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Latvia</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/LV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LV</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/Tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tariff</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.S.Economy <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a><br><a href="https://www.newsbeep.com/9206/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">newsbeep.com/9206/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Canayjun<p>Trump’s <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> are a tax on the American people and businesses who import anything. A tariff on Canadian goods is a tax paid by Americans not Canadians. Canada doesn’t pay a penny. Tariffs on Europe, Brazil and China are all a tax on Americans. If someone crunched the numbers you could show that the President has increased taxes on Americans more than any other. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tradedeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tradedeal</span></a></p>
The Japan Times<p>As the U.S. pulls back, China claims to defend free trade and multilateralism but hasn’t matched its words with real action. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/11/world/china-a-defender-of-free-trade/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20</span><span class="invisible">25/07/11/world/china-a-defender-of-free-trade/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commentary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>worldnews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chineseeconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chineseeconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/useconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>useconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/globaleconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globaleconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geoeconomicbriefing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geoeconomicbriefing</span></a></p>
Calvin Taplay 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🇲🇽<p>Happy Canada Day and to those who celebrate, defend and support a strong independant nation. Canada works with other nations and celebrates that collaboration as a strength. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multilateralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multilateralism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tolerance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tolerance</span></a></p>
dumnezero<p><strong>Stop toxic trade deals! (/Corporate Europe Observatory)</strong></p> <p><a href="https://piefed.social/post/976514" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">piefed.social/post/976514</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Matti Schneider<p>⚖️ Regulation &amp; Cooperation</p><p>• Global promotion of <a href="https://maly.io/tags/DSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DSA</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://maly.io/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DMA</span></a><br>• Renewed commitment to multilateralism: UN, G7, G20, OECD, ITU, IGF, UNESCO<br>• Responsible state behaviour in cyberspace, upholding international rule of law by implementing UN decisions<br>• Include <a href="https://maly.io/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> in <a href="https://maly.io/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> agreements, and dedicated “digital trade agreements”</p>
PrivacyDigest<p>China’s <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Hainan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hainan</span></a> offers global <a href="https://mas.to/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> access to some to boost free-trade port ambitions | South China Morning Post</p><p>Employees of companies operating in the island province can apply for the ‘Global Connect’ scheme, but some content will remain restricted<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/globalconnect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>globalconnect</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3313224/chinas-hainan-offers-global-internet-access-some-boost-free-trade-port-ambitions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3</span><span class="invisible">313224/chinas-hainan-offers-global-internet-access-some-boost-free-trade-port-ambitions</span></a></p>
Völkerrechtsblog<p>New on our blog! </p><p>Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Accord Explained</p><p><a href="https://legal.social/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://legal.social/tags/InternationalTradeLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalTradeLaw</span></a> <a href="https://legal.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://legal.social/tags/WTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WTO</span></a></p><p><a href="https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/trumps-mar-a-lago-accord-explained/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">voelkerrechtsblog.org/trumps-m</span><span class="invisible">ar-a-lago-accord-explained/</span></a></p>
EURACTIV Economy<p>A conversation about trade, <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a> and informed choices with Alexandre Ricard, Pernod Ricard [Advocacy Lab Content]: As Pernod Ricard celebrates 50 years since its founding and 30 years in Brussels, Euractiv sits down with CEO Alexandre Ricard to discuss the importance of <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a>, the role of the EU, and how a business rooted in geographic origin depends on open global markets to succeed. <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/video/a-conversation-about-trade-sustainability-and-informed-choices-with-alexandre-ricard-pernod-ricard/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=dlvr.it" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">euractiv.com/section/economy-j</span><span class="invisible">obs/video/a-conversation-about-trade-sustainability-and-informed-choices-with-alexandre-ricard-pernod-ricard/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=dlvr.it</span></a></p>
aproitz<p>What is left from the big Plans of a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Treaty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Treaty</span></a> between <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>, self <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/promising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>promising</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aftermath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aftermath</span></a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> ? Pretty shallow everything now. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politicians</span></a> lied to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Citizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Citizens</span></a>, promising the Blue from the Sky to them. </p><p>Britain hasn’t agreed a trade deal with the US – it’s ended a hostage negotiation | Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/08/britain-trade-deal-us-hostage-negotiation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/may/08/britain-trade-deal-us-hostage-negotiation</span></a></p>
Voting is Your POWER<p>UK and India sign a ‘landmark’ trade agreement after years of tough negotiations<br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/uk-india-trade-deal-starmer-modi-6cbaf787f49a08aac18f93b2601d09f2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/uk-india-tr</span><span class="invisible">ade-deal-starmer-modi-6cbaf787f49a08aac18f93b2601d09f2</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Corporate clients are strengthening their balance sheets, pulling forward inventory and pausing spending or investments in their businesses, Citigroup’s Fraser said. Executives are locked in intense talks with bankers and running through scenarios. She expects that to turn into action later this year.</p><p>Along the way, the global economy may pay a price that “is not trivial,” International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said. After all, trade imbalances built up for years and are coming to a head in a manner that is difficult to anticipate.</p><p>“We are now going from a predictable trade regime to what is going to be a new equilibrium,” she said. “The way from here to there, very uncertain.”</p><p>Such uncertainty is creating the potential for a recession — but economic growth may end up stronger, Michael Goosay, chief investment officer for fixed income at Principal Asset Management, said in an interview at Milken."</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-05/milken-crowd-warms-up-to-tariffs-while-condemning-all-the-chaos" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/news/articles/20</span><span class="invisible">25-05-05/milken-crowd-warms-up-to-tariffs-while-condemning-all-the-chaos</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GlobalTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalTrade</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomy</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Since the Seventies, America’s deficits have provided East Asia (first Japan, then China) and Europe (primarily Germany) the demand for their factories’ manufactures. In return, the European Union, Japan and later China sent their accumulated profits to Wall Street to be recycled into US private and public debt, some equities, and real estate. A Chinese official once described this mechanism to me as a “dark deal”. “Our Dark Deal with the Americans,” the official explained, “turns on the US trade deficit, which keeps demand for our manufactures high. In return, our capitalists invest the bulk of their dollar superprofits into America’s FIRE”. (The acronym stands for “Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate.”) “Once this process got underway, America shifted much of its industrial production to our shores.”</p><p>The problem with this global recycling mechanism was that, to function smoothly, it had to generate larger and larger imbalances: greater trade deficits for the US and more accumulated savings for Northern Europe and East Asia. But there are limits to how large imbalances can grow. Ruptures are inevitable. The longer they are delayed, the greater the pain they inflict — a truth that centrists never acknowledged, not even when it was tearing down their houses.</p><p>Trump’s greatest strength comes from asking the pressing question that the centrists refuse to countenance: what comes after the Dark Deal? What comes after the imbalances built on the US trade deficit have proven unsustainably massive? Scott Bessent, Trump’s Treasury Secretary, put it succinctly in a recent speech at the IMF: “Everywhere we look across the international economic system today, we see imbalance… This status quo of large and persistent imbalances is not sustainable… The persistent over-reliance on the United States for demand is resulting in an evermore unbalanced global economy.”"</p><p><a href="https://unherd.com/2025/05/the-centrist-comeback-wont-last/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unherd.com/2025/05/the-centris</span><span class="invisible">t-comeback-wont-last/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Centrism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Centrism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liberalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TradeDeficit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TradeDeficit</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicDebt</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Lol, Contrarian Kemi at it again!</p><p>Starmer's secret weapon against the Tories, their own feckless leader. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KemiBadenoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KemiBadenoch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GlobalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalEconomy</span></a> already feeling drag from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTariffs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> are increasingly clogging up the wheels of a world <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> which for decades were greased by predictable &amp; relatively <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a>.</p><p>Big-name multinationals right down to niche e-commerce players last week cut sales targets, warned of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>job</span></a> cuts &amp; reviewed their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> plans, while major economies revised down growth prospects amid bleak data read-outs.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>recession</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpcession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trumpcession</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/global-economy-already-feeling-drag-trump-tariffs-2025-05-05/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/china/global</span><span class="invisible">-economy-already-feeling-drag-trump-tariffs-2025-05-05/</span></a></p>
Easily Pleased<p>…countries passed IP laws to protect US tech interests in exchange for tariff-free access to US markets. …[now we have] a generational opportunity to pass laws that enable local technologists to jailbreak US tech exports and liberate their people from the extractive practices of Big Tech forever. </p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its-not-the-crime/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its</span><span class="invisible">-not-the-crime/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cory_doctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cory_doctorow</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/unexpectedupside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unexpectedupside</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/freetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freetrade</span></a></p>
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