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Steve Jobs Tim Cook and shipping out of America' industrial base and with it America's leadership of the Free World
05/26/2025
America's industrial strength, it's industrial base, is one of the four pillars of America's leadership of the Free World. Without it the Free World will fall apart. The other pillars are it's education and it's health care. Underfunding of education with declining enrolment of men in college and lack of factory jobs comes with loss of the industrial base for taxes, taxes avoided by Apple and other companies. All these problems are becoming clear in 2025 as DJT calls for reindustrializing the Nation.
Grouped Articles
Trump, Apple relationship devolves with threats
The Hill 05/26/2025
Tech’s Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades
NYTimes.com 05/26/2025
Tim Cook’s Bad Year Keeps Getting Worse
WSJ 05/24/2025
China and the World Face a Double Blow from decades of housing construction enabled hyper growth- creating problems of climate change for the World and a slump in growth in 2023
10/16/2023
Decades of growth at 12-14% have left China and the World worse off. As Greg Ip pointed out in WSJ America could not cope with this hyper growth in a country many times the size of Japan after absorbing the growth of Japan in the sixties. The result was the closing down of factories and ever increasing imports from China until America had transferred its manufacturing prowess to China. This led to the societal breakdown in the US with communities dependent on factories across the US feeling the brunt. The other effects were an unprecedented in scale use of coal and fossil fuels to fuel hyper growth rates in China that created the problems of World Climate Change by 2023 and contamination of water, land and air inside China. By 2030 China will be aging rapidly similar to Japan today and the slowing economy in 2024 onwards could mean China will be stuck in the Middle Income category. All this poses lessons for America, for Europe, India and the World on what kind of growth is healthy and what kind is not, what is sustainable growth and what is not,what works well for the planet and what does not.
Grouped Articles
China Bet It All on Real Estate. Now Its Economy Is Paying the Price.
NYTimes.com 10/16/2023
An Even Bigger Housing Crisis Threatens China’s Economy
WSJ 09/18/2023
Is China’s Economic Predicament as Bad as Japan’s? It Could Be Worse
WSJ 09/19/2023
China’s Economy Remains Shaky After Challenging Summer
WSJ 10/13/2023
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.
Grouped Articles
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
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.
Grouped Articles
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
Kick the sugar habit
07/17/2021
Healthy living means no more than 6% of daily calories of 2000 calories a day should come from sugar intake. During the coronavirus pandemic poor health habits mean pouring gasoline on fire. It is morally indefensible and a sign of a backward country that the the health guideline is set at 10% in the US. The mean consumption of sugar today in the US is 13%. In teaspoons about 6-8 teaspoons of added sugar is the healthy limit, at 16 calories per teaspoon this is 96 calories to 120 calories from added sugar. In grams this is 24 grams at 4 grams per teaspoon of sugar. It is critical to make it a habit to look at packaged foods labels and make intelligent choices. And to simply cut the sugar we add in tea, coffee or drinks by a third or a fourth. Good habits = good health. It is also critical to start this with public education in schools from K1 to high school.
Grouped Articles
Boris Johnson must help us kick our sugar habit
The Times 07/17/2021
Beware sugar highs: seven healthy ways to get more energy – from stretching to sourdough
The Guardian 04/05/2021
New Limits Urged on Americans’ Sugar Consumption Amid Rising Obesity Concerns
WSJ 10/05/2020
Make 2020 the Year of Less Sugar
NYTimes.com 01/06/2019
Who is Dr. Harlem Brundtland? Compared to her does the WHO today flunk, and even Dr Fauci, Dr Redfield fall short
05/20/2020
Dr. Harlem Brundtland was head of the WHo during the SARS crisis which originated in China in 2003. Her swift action included questioning China's suppression of the openness of its scientific and medical community at the time, alerting the world to take action to control the epidemic. The U.S. clearly brings up Dr. Brundtland as the model that was not followed in its letter to the WHO of May 18, 2020. Dr. Redfield, head U.S. CDC was alerted by Dr. Gao Fu head of China's CDC and its medical scientific community on Dec. 31, 2019, and through Dr. Redfield the American medical scientific community including Dr. Fauci, in an early warning of what was to happen. Dr Brundtland is a three time prime minister of Norway starting with the first term in 1981 and ending with the third term in 1996. She was head of the Labor Party and had a distinguished record including her work in climate change, sustainable development and other issues. The WHO earned much respect under her leadership of the organization.
Grouped Articles
‘The only way forward for WHO is...’: Full text of Trump’s letter to WHO chief
Hindustan Times 05/19/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
Trump gives WHO ultimatum over virus handling
BBC News 05/19/2020
Lessons from the coronavirus crisis- big needs in health services, supplies and infrastructure that were neglected
04/22/2020
Grouped Articles
Coronavirus brings two Chinas together
The Times 02/03/2020
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 03/27/2020
Bloomberg to help New York build 'army' of COVID-19 tracers - France 24
France 24 04/22/2020
The Critical Variable in Keeping Coronavirus in Check
WSJ 04/20/2020
Five tests that will guide us out of coronavirus lockdown
The Times 04/30/2020
Effects of coronavirus epidemic on China and the world economy
02/09/2020
Grouped Articles
Coronavirus Closes China to the World, Straining Global Economy
WSJ 02/03/2020
How will the coronavirus affect the world economy? | DW | 04.02.2020
DW.COM 02/04/2020
How will the coronavirus affect the world economy? | DW | 04.02.2020
DW.COM 02/04/2020
Coronavirus leaves shops and restaurants deserted as Beijing becomes a ghost town
The Times 01/29/2020
‘What if We All Get Sick?’: Coronavirus Strains China’s Health System
NYTimes.com 01/27/2020
Shanghai streets empty due to coronavirus outbreak
BBC News 02/03/2020
The Phase 1 U.S. China Trade Agreement of 2020
01/15/2020
Grouped Articles
U.S., China to Sign Deal Easing Trade Tensions
WSJ 01/15/2020
A Year On, China Falls Short on Trade-Deal Targets
WSJ 01/15/2021
Renegotiating the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2019-2020
10/02/2019
Grouped Articles
European Leaders Push U.S., Iran to Forge New Nuclear Deal
WSJ 10/02/2019
The effect on stock markets and economic sentiment from trade disputes in 2018-2020
08/15/2019
Grouped Articles
Dow Sheds 800 in Biggest Drop of Year
WSJ 08/14/2019
Hong Kong protests and the U.S. China trade war
08/15/2019
Grouped Articles
Trump Ties Trade Deal to China Action in Hong Kong, Suggests Meeting With Xi
WSJ 08/15/2019
Merkel renews call for peaceful resolution to Hong Kong protests
South China Morning Post 09/07/2019
Action to cut single use plastic bags and packaging 2025
11/27/2024
Efforts to end the use of single use plastics that are a threat to health and the environment, land, rivers and oceans. The use of plastic water bottles has worsened the crisis. Supermarkets are slow in the US to ban plastic bags showing need for prudent regulation. Talks in Busan, South Korea, in Nov 2024 to find a solution to the plastics proliferation crisis. The plastics industry including plastics makers and recycling companies say things are under control with recycling goals, yet reports show only 30% of plastics is being recycled each year in 2024, and going back to the beginning of plastics 2 decades back only about 10% has been recycled.
Grouped Articles
Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
NYTimes.com 11/27/24
Washington Post 06/10/24
China Tries to Stem the Flow of Its Plastic Waste
WSJ 01/20/20
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis
WSJ 12/12/18
New York Businesses Anticipate Plastic-Bag Ban
WSJ 02/27/20
Supermarkets in France forced to ditch plastic and set up ‘refill stations’ selling unpackaged goods
The Times 04/01/21
The Future of Work - worklife balance, Feirabend, (breaking off from work at 5.01), 30 hour weeks and longer careers
09/13/2023
What does the future of work look like. Ideas from Laura Carstensen of the Stanford Center for Longevity who says rather than follow an outdated norm of education in the early part of life, work in the middle part of life and leisure in the latter part of life, it makes sense to mix education, work and leisure throughout life. Feierabend is the German practice of breaking off from work at 5.01 pm so that one can go outdoors for exercise and fresh air. All this with nutrition and exercise, healthy living, contributes to a more productive satisfying life that includes time for family, parents and children.
Grouped Articles
Unintended consequences of China's years of hyper growth- climate change and sharply slowing growth
07/31/2022
China's overdependence on the property sector and foreign investment in offshoring factories from home countries to China had unintended effects. The property sector led growth has led to sudden collapse with local governments finances strained by $900 billion according to WSJ and loss of buyer confidence. The effects on communities in the US and EU of shifting local factories to China is well known having alienated the US and EU public, and permanently damaging friendly relations leading to its reversal and shift back to home countries. Years of unbridled hyper growth has not done well for China with the consequences seen today. At the start of this experiment China embarked on in 1990 China had little experience with market economy. The self interested advice of American investment banks and business and the zeal of local government officials led to hyper growth. The US and EU countries could not cope with the scale of China's hyper growth and shift of factories overseas as they had done with Japan in the sixties and seventies because of the sheer scale and compression in a short period for China. The result is sharply slowing growth in China and loss of faith on both sides. It did not have to happen this way and shows the unintended consequences of letting capitalism go its own way with interested parties acting excessively and governments not acting where prudence is needed. The burning of coal in unlimited quantities created the problems of climate change the world faces today- a double blow for the world and for China with lessons for today and how we think about his in future.
Grouped Articles
China’s Manufacturing Sector Unexpectedly Contracts Amid Weak Demand, Covid Lockdowns
WSJ 07/31/22
China’s Economy Tested by Strained City Finances
WSJ 07/31/22
China Home Sales Plunge in July, as Mortgage Revolt Deters Buyers
WSJ 07/31/22
China property sales could plunge by one-third, analysts say, as crisis deepens
The Guardian 07/26/22
China Bet It All on Real Estate. Now Its Economy Is Paying the Price.
NYTimes.com 10/16/23
Xi Jinping's vision for China
09/21/2021
Much lower incomes for the 40% of Chinese who live in rural areas, and the worsening inequality during the pandemic with workers losing jobs or on low pay, with China lacking a system of unemployment insurance like the US and EU countries, have created a new urgency for president Xi to tackle these problems. Glaring inequality with IPO's creating new millionaires or billionaires are frowned upon and president Xi personally axed the Ant IPO. After a crackdown on corruption involving about 1 million people, Xi has shifted investment to rural areas to improve conditions of living. State run enterprises are seen as more reliable in achieving Xi's vision of less inequality after the excesses of unregulated capitalist development since 1990.
Grouped Articles
Xi Jinping Aims to Rein In Chinese Capitalism, Hew to Mao’s Socialist Vision
WSJ 09/20/21
China Blocked Jack Ma’s Ant IPO After Investigation Revealed Likely Beneficiaries
WSJ 03/20/21
China’s President Xi Jinping Personally Scuttled Jack Ma’s Ant IPO
WSJ 03/20/21
China’s Xi Ramps Up Control of Private Sector. ‘We Have No Choice but to Follow the Party.’
WSJ 12/10/20
China Urges New Era of Mass Migration—Back to the Countryside
WSJ 11/17/20
China Beat Back Covid-19, but It’s Come at a Cost—Growing Inequality
WSJ 10/21/20
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
Underreporting on coronavirus in China and the false sense of security in the U.S., Sweden, Japan, India
04/22/2020
Grouped Articles
Opinion | China Still Misleads the World on the Coronavirus
WSJ 04/13/20
Five tests that will guide us out of coronavirus lockdown
The Times 04/30/20
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
NYTimes.com 05/07/20
Millions of coronavirus infections left undetected worldwide – study | DW | 08.04.2020
DW.COM 04/08/20
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 04/05/20
The quarantine and lockdown of cities an experiment to contain the coronavirus in 2020
02/09/2020
Grouped Articles
‘What if We All Get Sick?’: Coronavirus Strains China’s Health System
NYTimes.com 01/27/20
Shanghai streets empty due to coronavirus outbreak
BBC News 02/03/20
Coronavirus Closes China to the World, Straining Global Economy
WSJ 02/03/20
Coronavirus leaves shops and restaurants deserted as Beijing becomes a ghost town
The Times 01/29/20
Spreading Coronavirus Prompts Lockdown of More Chinese Cities
WSJ 01/23/20
SARS Experience Guides China’s Effort to Contain New Virus
WSJ 01/10/20
Coronavirus in China in 2020
02/09/2020
Grouped Articles
Coronavirus Outbreak Has Killed More People Than SARS
WSJ 02/09/20
How will the coronavirus affect the world economy? | DW | 04.02.2020
DW.COM 02/04/20
The Chinese doctor who tried to warn about coronavirus
BBC News 02/04/20
Health Officials Err on Side of Caution to Contain Viral Outbreak
WSJ 02/03/20
Shanghai streets empty due to coronavirus outbreak
BBC News 02/03/20
Coronavirus Closes China to the World, Straining Global Economy
WSJ 02/03/20
The first real turnaround in the U.S. trade deficit with China in 2019- a key Trump goal for U.S. jobs and U.S manufacturing competitiveness
01/14/2020
Grouped Articles
In a Year of Trade War, U.S. Deficit With China Shrank
WSJ 01/14/20
U.S., China to Sign Deal Easing Trade Tensions
WSJ 01/15/20
Opinion | Bringing the Factories Home
WSJ 07/19/20
Shift of Manufacturing Supply Chains from China
08/23/2019
Grouped Articles
Manufacturers Want to Quit China for Vietnam. They’re Finding It Impossible.
WSJ 08/21/19
Supply chains are undergoing a dramatic transformation
The Economist 07/30/19
Supply chains for different industries are fragmenting in different ways
The Economist 07/30/19
Multinational companies are adjusting to shorter supply chains
The Economist
Germany falling behind in electric cars by 2019- impact on jobs and the economy
08/15/2019
Government forecasts of loss of 0.6% GDP and 13% loss in jobs by 2035 from lack of investment in electric cars and competition from China, Japan.
Grouped Articles
Rise of Electric Cars Threatens to Drain German Growth
WSJ 08/15/19
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