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DJT US 25% auto import tariff April 2, 2025
03/30/2025
The impact of the 25% DJT US auto import tariff comes after NAFTA and USMCA Trade Treaty did little to prevent the outshoring of US jobs and manufacturing to Mexico and Canada. German and South Korean companies made about 80% to 60% of cars sold in the US in Mexico or in their home country. The outshoring was used by American and foreign companies as a way to keep American automobile wages low as American companies could threaten workers asking for higher wages with loss of jobs by outshoring the production. This happened for two decades under the elder Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. The US International Trade Commission estimates in a 2024 study that this 25% tariff would increase revenues by 5% and prices by 5% in the US for cars. Higher prices over 10% would be borne by affluent buyers of BMW's, Benz and Audis. Because US auto plants have excess capacity and operate at 60% in 2025 they could quickly increase American production without increasing prices as American manufacturers car sales increase. Hyundai plans to invest $21 billion in US plants from 2025. UAW union supports this move by DJT and trade advisers Lighthizer, Jamieson USTR, and Navarro.
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Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if car prices rise in the US
BBC News 03/30/2025
Transcript: UAW president Shawn Fain on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," March 30, 2025
03/30/2025
How Trump’s Tariffs Are Hitting Big Car Producers, in Charts
WSJ 03/27/2025
Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs
WSJ 03/28/2025
America has forgotten it is American workers who built America
09/28/2023
Entry level tier wages for auto workers at $17 an hour in 2022 as the UAW union goes on strike in 2023. At $34,000 a year entry level young auto workers make less than the $35,000- 40,000 a year for families set as the Federal Poverty Level by the Department of HHS. Lincoln and TR-FDR would see this as outrageous as American workers built American factories and America since the Industrial Revolution. America has forgotten its workers and worker's families, worker's children. Two thirds of children with the vast majority from the workers families not able to pass ACT reading comprehension at the 4th grade, and 50 % of retired people having zero savings. Not the America of Lincoln or TR-FDR.
Grouped Articles
Trump’s pitch for autoworker votes in car heartland is short on autoworkers
The Guardian 09/28/2023
Biden Joins Autoworkers on Picket Line in Michigan
NYTimes.com 09/27/2023
Biden Joins UAW Picket Line Ahead of Trump Visit, Opening 2024 Election Fight
WSJ 09/26/2023
Five Clues to Where the UAW Strike Is Headed Next
WSJ 09/23/2023
Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike
NYTimes.com 09/17/2023
Whatever the UAW Strike Outcome, Elon Musk Has Already Won
WSJ 09/16/2023
Starmer's Plan for Britain- "A bold and reforming Labor government that will bring about real change."
05/03/2023
Starmer describes his bold plans for education, housing, healthcare, climate change and renewable energy, that he hopes will be felt for generations.
Grouped Articles
Keir Starmer: ‘I want Labour to be the party of home ownership’
The Guardian 05/03/2023
The Guardian 05/02/2023
Keir Starmer prepares for his moment of truth in battle for the blue wall
04/30/2023
‘Stand by every word’: Keir Starmer defends attack ad on Rishi Sunak
The Guardian 04/09/2023
Labour could win big with shift to right on social issues, says thinktank
The Guardian 01/20/2023
Biden and his "Biggest bill on Climate Ever, Ever, Ever"
09/03/2022
The $369 billion Biden Bill on Climate is the biggest bill ever. It was put through with Biden's fellow senators and his long experience in the Senate of the US through the efforts of Senator Coon and Hickenlooper who took a new approach to negotiating with Senator Manchin appealing to his place in history and in the party. Biden said while signing the bill "Joe I never doubted for a moment." Senator Schumer of New York did the negotiations and persevered till the end when Manchin was on board. Adjustments were made to allow increase in drilling to bring down oil prices to create a win-win for all so that it could be called The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 as pharmaceutical prices would also come down with the government retaking the right to negotiate pharmaceutical prices lost under Republicans. It is also a Win for Europe, India, and the World.
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Biden Signs Expansive Health, Climate and Tax Law
NYTimes.com 08/16/2022
Biden Signs Climate, Health Bill Into Law as Other Economic Goals Remain
NYTimes.com 08/18/2022
What’s in Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer’s Reconciliation Deal on Climate, Health and Tax Policy?
WSJ 08/12/2022
Climate Bill Aims to Boost America’s Charging Network to Meet Rising EV Demand
WSJ 08/12/2022
Opinion | Bill Gates: We’re on the Verge of a Remarkable Moment for Congress and the Country
NYTimes.com 08/07/2022
Democrats’ Climate and Tax Deal Closes In on Passage
WSJ 08/05/2022
Children and mental health during the coronavirus pandemic- search for solutions
10/09/2021
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One in six children aged 5-16 in England 'likely to have a mental disorder'
The Guardian 10/22/2020
Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine
The Guardian 10/08/2021
How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.
NYTimes.com 10/26/2021
Foundational learning took a hit amid Covid, only 19% schools have access to internet: UNESCO report
The Indian Express 10/05/2021
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/2021
Web giants ‘fuel child mental health crisis’
06/14/2018
How women can navigate the waters to find a family friendly workplace and get men to share in household chores. This is important for women's Mental Health.
09/24/2021
During the pandemic women increasingly stayed at home while men continued to work. Figures from Bureau of Labor Statistics show women ended up with doing even more household chores than men in 2020 compared to 2019. As a result women during the coronavirus feel worn out or burned out in addition to losing income. WSJ offers ways women can tackle this problem both by getting men to share in household chores, and finding employers who are family friendly as the coronavirus pandemic declines in 2022.
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How to Find a Family-Friendly Workplace
WSJ 09/24/2021
Women Still Do More of the Housework. Here’s How to Share the Load.
WSJ 09/23/2021
Pope Francis and the call "not to return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the pandemic."
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 which set back the working class, the middle class and the poor, and the neglect of capital allocation to healthcare, education, infrastructure. Pope Francis calls for a culture that feels others pain, that "gives access to all to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life: to land, lodging, and labor." See "Misallocation of Capital" in Top Stories for more coverage.
Grouped Articles
World War II- the Forgotten Men and Women of India, America and Mexico
09/09/2020
Indian pilots and army numbering 2.5 million who fought aginst Japanese in Imphal, and Germans in Italy. The black women who performed postal duties in Europe for 17 million pieces of mail in the war in England to be delivered to soldiers in Europe, and later at Rouen, France. The Mexican pilots of the 201st squadron attached to the Fifth U.S. Air Force.
Grouped Articles
Dr. Redfield, head of the U.S. Centre for Disease Control
05/20/2020
Grouped Articles
C.D.C.’s Dr. Robert Redfield Confronts Coronavirus, and Anger
NYTimes.com 03/13/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
False tradeoff between economy and lockdowns- the pandemic economics of the 1918 pandemic
04/06/2020
Grouped Articles
Opinion | Bet Big on Treatments for Coronavirus
WSJ 04/05/2020
USMCA trade agreement that replaces NAFTA
04/29/2019
Grouped Articles
Trump’s New Nafta Faces Mounting Resistance in Democratic House
WSJ 04/28/2019
The U.S. trade deficit in 2019 up to $891 billion in 2019 February, even with the Trump tariffs on imports
03/06/2019
Grouped Articles
U.S. Posts Record Annual Trade Deficit
WSJ 03/06/2019
Trump promised to shrink the trade deficit. Instead, it exploded.
Washington Post 03/06/2019
Trump Could Raise Tariffs on China. Here’s How China Could Respond.
NYTimes.com 05/09/2019
How a non-interventionist U.S. president decided to intervene in Venezuela
01/25/2019
The U.S. alongside Canada and most of Latin America, with EU support, moves to support new and credible elections in Venezuela under an interim government.
Grouped Articles
Intervening Against Venezuela’s Strongman, Trump Belies ‘America First’
New York Times 01/24/2019
Opinion | Jorge Ramos: The Dictator of Venezuela Earns His Title
New York Times 02/27/2019
U.S. Tries to Squeeze Venezuelan President by Revoking His Allies’ Visas
New York Times 03/07/2019
Why cost of living is destroying the social compact in the US and Europe and upending governments in 2024-2025
02/24/2025
Used car prices are up 45% since 2019 putting used cars at average price $28000. It is not a discretionary cost, one needs a car to get to work in the US. There are cases of young people not able to pay soaring repair costs quitting work without transport. This is why there was so much discontent in 2024 after supply shocks and price gouging pushed up prices in 2024. Another factor evident in airline ticket pricing was demand and the excess income of the top 20 percent. In housing and apartment rentals supply shortages pushed up prices, demand and excess income of the top 20-30 percent pushed up prices beyond the reach of the rest, higher interest rates made it unaffordable to buy a home for most Americans.
Grouped Articles
Why There Is No Relief Ahead for High Used-Car Prices
WSJ 02/15/25
The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People
WSJ 02/24/25
Isaacson story of Musk and skepticism about it as a role model for business leadership
09/13/2023
The wild swings and temperamental nature of such leadership. The lack of worklife balance, health and mental wellbeing consciousness which are the true drivers for productivity. A comparison between the old Italian driven Sergio Marchionne and new worklife balance respecting Portuguese CEO's of carmaker Stellantis Carlos Tavares Dias shows the opposite role models. The old CEO of Fiat Chrysler Marchionne and Musk have similarities. Marchionne was a heavy smoker who worked very long hours and neglected healthy living and worklife balance leading to having to resign because of ill health. It shows that lack of attention to healthy lifestyle and worklife balance has consequences. Tavares Dias has learned a lot from this and respects worklife balance and healthy living.
Grouped Articles
Essay | The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover
WSJ 08/31/23
How Europe won the energy war after shutdown of Russian gas supplies
04/07/2023
By April 2023 with winter over it is clear that Europe has come out of the winter season with its economy intact after shutdown of pipeline gas from the pipelines in Russia. A lot of action was taken in a short time- Germany's Habeck went to Qatar and other countries to secure LNG supplies, a new LNG terminal was built at Wilhelmshaven in record time, Norway and the US pitched in with more supplies, conservation went into high gear, and renewable energy investments were accelerated. There is no recession in the European Union as a result of this effort. And in this sense and with the Ukrainian economy functioning, generators taking Ukraine through a tough winter, EU taking in 80% of Ukraine agricultural exports, and supermarket shelves kept well stocked, refugees settled in Poland and Germany, the war has already been decided. The principle of no impunity for attacks on neighboring countries has been preserved by the EU acting together to protect itself.
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Opinion | Putin’s Energy Offensive Has Failed
NYTimes.com 04/07/23
Thwarting Vladimir Putin: The Ukrainian Economy Just Keeps On Going - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 04/07/23
An LNG pipeline built in record time – DW – 11/01/2022
dw.com 11/04/22
Escaping the algorithm based social media platforms TikTok, Facebook and others
12/29/2021
If and how it is possible to escape the algorithm based social media platforms TikTok, Facebook and others, harmful for girls and the young, and to mental health, diversity, and education that leads to upward mobility, is the subject of a WSJ series in 2021.
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The TikTok Spiral, Part 1: Descent - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 12/27/21
The TikTok Spiral, Part 3: Escape the Algorithm - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 12/29/21
‘The Corpse Bride Diet’: How TikTok Inundates Teens With Eating-Disorder Videos
WSJ 12/17/21
Teens Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok May Be A Factor. - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 11/08/21
Facebook Faces Official Questions in India Over Policing of Hate Speech
WSJ 10/28/21
Facebook Whistleblower’s Testimony Builds Momentum for Tougher Tech Laws
WSJ 10/05/21
Nature walks, nature settings, as an essential way to boost mental health and wellbeing during the pandemic
10/09/2021
It is proven that just two hours a week of walks in nature setting in parks, natural settings, green areas, or forested areas, can be hugely beneficial for health and wellbeing during the pandemic. Long and recurrent lockdowns or partial lockdowns, closure of schools, loss of work and income, have had devastating effects on mental health in many countries. Much needs to be done to promote nature walks and bringing nature as a healing mechanism to take some of the burden off the overburdened health services of many countries. Awareness of this in the UK and funds + projects to do this can be a model for other countries.
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Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – study
The Guardian 06/13/19
Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message
NYTimes.com 10/04/21
‘It took a year to get help’: generation Z on mental health decline
The Guardian 09/30/21
Natural health service: wildlife volunteers get mental health boost
The Guardian 10/02/17
Nature on prescription: wetlands project aims to boost mental health
The Guardian 05/13/21
‘These salt marshes saved my life’: how nature is helping mental health
The Guardian 10/09/21
Global corporate minimum tax rate to pay for new infrastructure
04/07/2021
Grouped Articles
Biden Softens Tax Plan Aimed at Profitable Companies That Pay Little
WSJ 04/07/21
G-20 to Seek Agreement on Global Minimum Tax Rate by Mid-2021
WSJ 04/07/21
Treasury’s Yellen Calls for Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate
WSJ 04/05/21
Yellen Pushes for Global Minimum Tax Rate on Companies: Live Updates
NYTimes.com 04/05/21
Biden Infrastructure Plan Aims to Boost Economy’s Productivity Over Time
WSJ 04/01/21
Joe Biden mimics Franklin Roosevelt with $2trn Covid recovery plan
The Times 04/01/21
Rising prices for homes and cars during the pandemic
09/09/2020
With a limited supply of homes and lost car production, the remaining supply is being sold at higher prices to people who have not lost jobs during the pandemic. The cars are more upscale and the homes are further away from the core parts of cities.
Grouped Articles
Car Sales Are Down Almost 20%, but Prices Are Setting Records
WSJ 09/04/20
Loan funds fending off distressed debt investors in 2020- signs of the changes underway after coronavirus
06/30/2020
Grouped Articles
Lenders to Ailing Companies Circle Wagons to Fend Off Distressed-Debt Investors
WSJ 06/26/20
Government aid to keep households running during the lockdowns needed to control coronavirus
04/22/2020
Government aid is designed to keep families and households running during the lockdowns required to control coronavirus.
Grouped Articles
Millions of Europeans Are on Paid Leave. Governments Are Picking Up The Tab.
WSJ 04/22/20
Lockdowns and quarantine- buying time for the testing and cluster isolation attack on cornonavirus
03/27/2020
Grouped Articles
India 'super spreader' quarantines 40,000 people
BBC News 03/27/20
Bloomberg to help New York build 'army' of COVID-19 tracers - France 24
France 24 04/22/20
The Critical Variable in Keeping Coronavirus in Check
WSJ 04/20/20
Five tests that will guide us out of coronavirus lockdown
The Times 04/30/20
Aging well, healthy living into the seventies and eighties with creative lifestyles, food and exercize routines
04/10/2019
Grouped Articles
She’s 89 and Can’t Stay Out of the Pool
WSJ 03/30/19
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