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Americans Have $35 Trillion in Housing Wealth—and It’s Costing Them

  
WSJ - 04.08.2025 Original article ›
Veronica Dagher, Anne Tergesen
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Higher property taxes and other costs are making Americans feel poorer with less cash flow even though housing wealth has increased by 80% since 2025 to $35 trillion. 

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Dodgers celebrate 2024 World Series title at White House: ‘An incredible honor’

  
NYTimes.com - 04.08.2025 Original article ›
Fabian Ardaya
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At the gathering in the White House with the Los Angeles Dodgers the president DJT says-

"The scouting report at the start of the series said that the Dodgers could win by focusing on the fundamentals, and that’s exactly what they did.” There was the 5 run comeback in Game 5.

“You showed America that it’s not about individual glory. It’s about the team digging deep and sprinting right through first base."

Lighthizer, Jamieson and Bessent on the economic team at the administration need the same skills and digging deep for a just cause of a level playing field in world trade.

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Supreme Court Overturns Block on Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Deportations

  
NYTimes.com - 04.08.2025 Original article ›
Abbie Van Sickle

Global Leaders Rush to Woo Trump, Hoping to Sway Him on Tariffs

  
NYTimes.com - 04.08.2025 Original article ›
Ana Swanson, Alexandra Stevenson, Damien Cave, Jeanna Smialek
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Already Japan, Vietnam and Taiwan are negotiating. India will join South Korea. Britain will follow. Only Canada and China are holding back because of the imbalance in trade heavily in their favor and a failure to see that it is about fairness. In the EU only Germany has a surplus many nations have a deficit, it seeks to start negotiating at the first opportunity. Contrary to what most of the American and British media says Lighhizer and Jamieson have thought this thing through for many years before arriving at the Tariffs advice they gave the US president as his 2 USTR. It is these two not the president acting on his own whim as the media like to show. And Lighthizer has done this before- as Deputy USTR in the 1980 with Japan on the opposite side and come out of it with winning solutions for the US and for the world.

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China vows to fight Trump's tariffs 'to the end'

  
Le Monde.fr - 04.08.2025 Original article ›

Supreme Court Lifts Order Blocking Deportations to El Salvador

  
WSJ - 04.07.2025 Original article ›
Jess Bravin

U.S. and Iran to Hold High-Stakes Nuclear Talks

  
WSJ - 04.07.2025 Original article ›
Alexander Ward, Michael R. Gordon, Laurence Norman

In Good Shape - How to maintain your mental health – DW – 04/07/2025

  
dw.com - 04.07.2025 Original article ›
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Stories of German athletes, soccer players and working mothers in this video of staying in shape and good mental health in DW.com.

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Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon

  
POLITICO - 04.07.2025 Original article ›
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Comments on X that cause difficulty for DJT chief of staff Susie Wiles to keep a clear narrative and the loss in the Wisconsin SC election are leading to a sense that Elon Musk could be a political liability. DJT focus is on the midterms and keeping the majority in the House, which is also why Elise Stefanik was asked to not accept the job of UN Representative and remain in the US Congress. The immediate focus is on tackling the Tariffs Liberation Day action April 2, 2025 so that followup negotiations with about 50 countries including major ones with Japan, Taiwan, Israel, Britain followed by European Union, South Korea and other nations. This would reassure markets as country after country is developing a new trade relationship that respects US manufacturing goals. China could then be tackled as a special case with America limited to loss of $146 billion in energy and grain sales which would be diverted to Europe's energy needs and farmers could be given a $50-100 billion support package. China would then have to find a way to preserve its $1 trillion surplus without the American market  which would require it to find other markets, and create a domestic market, if it chose not to negotiate and accept American manufacturing goals. ...
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Exclusive | Apple Plans to Source More iPhones From India as Potential Tariff Fix

  
WSJ - 04.07.2025 Original article ›
Yang Jie, Rolfe Winkler

Bessent to Lead Trade Negotiations with Japan

  
WSJ - 04.07.2025 Original article ›
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will lead US negotiating team in US- Japan  talks for Liberation Day Tariffs April 2, 2025 Negotiations.

"Japan remains among America’s closest allies, and I look forward to our upcoming productive engagement regarding tariffs, non-tariff trade barriers, currency issues, and government subsidies.” 

DJT says

"Countries from all over the world are talking to us. Tough but fair parameters are being set. Spoke to the Japanese prime minister this morning. He is sending a top team to negotiate. They have treated US very poorly on trade. The don't take our cars but we take MILLIONS of them. It all has to change but especially with CHINA.

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Trump tariffs latest: Trump threatens extra 50% tariff on China unless it drops retaliatory levy

  
BBC News - 04.07.2025 Original article ›

Trump Tariffs Live Updates: Stocks and Global Markets Waver as Trade War Intensifies

  
NYTimes.com - 04.07.2025 Original article ›
Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Eshe Nelson, Yan Zhuang
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DJT action to add another 50% tariff on China by Wednesday April 9, 2025 if it does not withdraw it's retaliatory tariff by Tuesday April 8.

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How Global Trade Could Survive Trump’s Tariffs

  
WSJ - 04.07.2025 Original article ›
Greg Ip
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Even China has not campaigned the way Canada, Mexico and British, American media have against DJT Tariffs because China knows it is basically about getting an even playing field when it is the only country with $1 trillion in trade in its favor in 2024, 12 times the Japanese high of $82 billion trade surplus in 2007. But why should China campaign when the American and British, German media are going to do the job for China? A simple quiz to K-12 would ask school children when is the last time a country has a $1 trillion trade surplus? Answer: Never. Greg Ip has written a few years back that the devastation of China outshoring of American factories and jobs was unlike the 1980's Japan trade invasion because of first China's size, second by the speed with which it happened at 10-14% Chinese GDP growth. There is a third Japan was an ally needing US for security and backed down, China's case is different it is challenging the US for control of the world economy and will fight this one over the long haul. Greg Ip of WSJ on the 53 countries asking to negotiate US Liberation Day April 2, 2025 Tariffs. These countries include Allies of the US in full support asking to negotiate Israel, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, India Allies of the US in partial support asking to negotiate Britain Allies of the US not in full support asking to negotiate Germany, France Allies of the US in the past campaigning against the US, asking to negotiate Canada, Mexico Not Allies of the US, not in full support, not campaigning against the US China A look at his list tells one only one thing, mostly all trading partners except for the $146 billion exports of the US which represents exports to China are the exports that are at risk if things don't work out on tariffs. This is what the media today WSJ added this last week to the NYT, Wash. Post and the BBC, Guardian of UK, German media will not tell the reader.  The DJT Tariffs and Tariff negotiations are Lighthizer Tariff negotiations which won the fight with Japan in the 1980's over unfair trade and gaining a level playing field. Lighthizer as Deputy US Trade Representative conducted the tough negotiations with Japan. He was USTR in 2016-2020 and his Deputy Jamieson is now USTR in 2025       ...
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Americans Are Sitting on a Cash Pile as Stocks Reel

  
WSJ - 04.06.2025 Original article ›
Krystal Hur

Will Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs Withstand the Courts?

  
WSJ - 04.06.2025 Original article ›
Jacob Gershman
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The US president has invoked emergency powers that relate to national security based on the fight against fentanyl -with 490,000 American lives lost over 12 years, 5 times that in the Vietnam and Korean Wars combined. And based on enormous trade imbalances that relate to national security with China having $1 trillion trade surplus 12 times the next highest trade surplus of $81 billion of Japan in 2007.

Note that appellate courts upheld the Nixon 10% trade tariffs based on invoking emergency powers also based on trade imbalances that time in the 1980's with Japan. The SCOTUS would be overreaching its judicial power to strike down the president on his main platform in the election, says one expert.

 

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In Vietnam’s Streets and Factories, Boom Built on U.S. Trade Suddenly Looks Fragile

  
WSJ - 04.06.2025 Original article ›
Stu Woo, Jon Emont | Photographs By Linh Pham For The Wall Street Journal

Trump Extends TikTok Deal Deadline, Delaying a Potential Ban

  
NYTimes.com - 04.05.2025 Original article ›
Sapna Maheshwari

A 10-Minute Pilates Routine You Can Do at Home

  
NYTimes.com - 04.05.2025 Original article ›
Emma Yasinski, Theodore Tae

How ​South Korea’s Democracy Prevailed Over a Reckless Leader

  
NYTimes.com - 04.05.2025 Original article ›
Choe Sang Hun
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South Korea's democratic form is recent. Since Sygman Rhee in the 1950's and student protest in 1960's three decades of military rule have weakened the country's democracy transformation efforts. Only since 1988 have free elections given Koreans a respite- just 36 years. Presidents are impeached and resign many times in these 36 years showing the fragility of the democratic forms of government in South Korea. The presence of a Communist North Korean regime and memory of the Korean War in 1950 add to the polarization in the country between right wing and left wing parties and politicians. Yoon is a clear example of a prosecutor becoming a candidate for president who was not anchored in a clear grasp of the limits of the power of the president and need to work with opposition parties. When he dabbled wildly in right wing politics that described the North Korean threat as close to home, this led to martial law and his presidency unraveling. 

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Opinion | ‘Bottom Line Is That We Have Lost Control of Our Destiny’

  
NYTimes.com - 04.05.2025 Original article ›
Thomas B. Edsall
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For Democrats to represent the working class their leaders have to come from these working class communities. This is not going to happens say people in this NYT Edsall report. Working class voters are about 60% of voters mostly not college educated, to 40% for non working class voters who are college educated. Biden was one of thse working class people who headed the Democrat party and stood on picket lines fro the UAW. Not Harris or Clinton. Democrats rail about billionaires but much of the multi billionaire community is in the Democrat party, much opf Silicon Valley and New York financial interests. Bush was not working class either yet there has been a unexpected transformation of the Republican party as trade, immigration, drug and migrant trafficking required non nonsense law and order, and strong action, based on common sense and stable values from the previous generation of Americans. This also applied to social issues such as LGBTQ and Transgender. This leaves one with the question will the Democrats be able to get rid of the Califonria Silicon Valley Techies, and New York financial interests, lobbying class,  within its ranks? Will it be able to transform itself by drawing from the working class communities working class leaders? ...
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Trump tariffs: The US firms welcoming the fight on trade

  
BBC News - 04.05.2025 Original article ›
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Rep Jodey Arrington of Texas on Liberation Day Tariffs-

"It just seems to me that it's un-American to not fight for our American manufacturers, producers and workers to simply have an even playing field." 

On the other side of the Atlantic the British press does not like America. Here is one report from the BBC News shown as Analysis by the BBC News.

It says Xi and the six other members of the Politburo Standing Committee were out planting trees to prevent deforestation while DJT was announcing big tariffs. And BBC News report Live goes on to say that the picture of Xi planting tress gives out the vibe that - go on America "this is China, we are not interested in your crap."  

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Trade czar shows teeth

  
Los Angeles Times - 04.05.2025 Original article ›
Don Lee
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The accompanying article from Pro Publica about Lighthizer's term at USTR shows the lack of results as China shifted production to Mexico and Vietnam - it shows it was going to be a long struggle, carried over into another 4 DJT years this time in 2025. That article showed tariffs are really not so much a weapon against other countries  as they are a way to signal to America's corporations to invest in supply chains in the US.  In Congressional hearings towards the end of his term at USTR in 2020 Lighthizer said -

“They have a system, and their system is challenging our system.”  Lighthizer told Senators that the U.S. struggle with China is “going to go on for years.”

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Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.

  
ProPublica - 04.05.2025 Original article ›
Lydia De Pillis
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This report in ProPublica on October 13, 2020, by Lydia DePillis was written near the end of Robert Lighhizer's term as US Trade Representative.  Bottom Line: It is human behaviour that no country, no kingdom or group will give up its money advantages secured when the opposition was weak or disorganized till the last fight is fought. The British were not giving up India, a source of financing the war against Napoleon in 1800's and then the Industrial Revolution in 1850's, the Dutch were not giving up the financial advantages of their Spices Empire in Batavia (Indonesia). History has shown this. Once gained under a state capitalism Japan was not going to give up its financial advantages gained by the 1980's when the US was weak or disorganized, till the last battle was fought.  Lighthizer who for the relentless Japanese was equally relentless till the goal of fair and level playing field for America was secured. This is true for China today on Liberation Day. This entire report by De Pillis in 2020 shows the Chinese would be relentless in 2020 like the Japanese in the 1980's, the Dutch in Indonesia  in the 18th and 19th century and the British in India in the 19th century and 20th century. China turned Mexico and Vietnam into supply routes into the US market. It continued its efforts to gain US technology in other ways. USTR older officials from the Bush Obama years of failed negotiations with China and endless hours putting together minute details of agreements including the TransPacific Agreement of Obama were not going to like the new approach of Lighthizer so stuck were they with the old approach of no clear goal and not getting an even playing field from China. ...
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Trump tariffs latest: President tells US to 'hang tough' over tariffs as Land Rover pauses shipments to country

  
BBC News - 04.05.2025 Original article ›
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China's tariffs on US products could be called self-respect tariffs as US exports to China are small compared to China's $1 trillion surplus a year. $143 billion mainly oilseeds and grains! US business not willing to rely on US labor created the outshoring that built Chinese industrial growth, shipping out technology in the process, that created this situation. Consultants to Apple at the time such as myself bringing Total Quality of Management from Japan to the US, could see the failure of production quality at the Colorado Springs plant just before Steve Jobs returned to the company in 1998. About 20-25% of PC product was defective on the production lines seen with my own eyes. Looking back I believe it was not just the workers but the managers and engineering that needed to guide and motivate the workers with new ways to build in quality control. These were the days when Apple's Steve Jobs hired Tim Cook to revamp production and ship it to China. American workers got blamed. Yet as Jim Carlton shows in "Apple the Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders," by 1996 a new German CEO Michael Spindler 1993-1996 had driven the company to the ground. The struggle with Microsoft gave Jobs an idea- by shifting production to a low cost location he could make the high margins to outinvest all competitors with new products-ipods, iphones, ipads. There is nothing wrong with American workers and their craftsmanship. Timeline- Steve Jobs returns to Apple 1997-1998 Tim Cook is hired from Compaq to revamp manufacturing in 1998 1999-2000 - the strategy is made to shift all of the production to China. Jobs could generate the margins and quality to challenge Microsoft, and profits to invest in new products 2020 -   the weakness of the strategy is apparent with supply side shock for chips and computers with the pandemic stopping shipping 2024 - after taking small steps to shift production to India does little to shift back to America 2025- Apple facing serious tariffs and the country's mood shifting to Make in the USA tells the new US president DJT it will invest $500 billion to shift production back to America. ...
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