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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 02/15/2025

The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People

WSJ 02/24/2025

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 02/15/2025

The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People

WSJ 02/24/2025

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 11/27/2024

The plastics we breathe

Washington Post 06/10/2024

China Tries to Stem the Flow of Its Plastic Waste

WSJ 01/20/2020

Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis

WSJ 12/12/2018

New York Businesses Anticipate Plastic-Bag Ban

WSJ 02/27/2020

Supermarkets in France forced to ditch plastic and set up ‘refill stations’ selling unpackaged goods

The Times 04/01/2021

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 11/27/2024

The plastics we breathe

Washington Post 06/10/2024

China Tries to Stem the Flow of Its Plastic Waste

WSJ 01/20/2020

Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis

WSJ 12/12/2018

New York Businesses Anticipate Plastic-Bag Ban

WSJ 02/27/2020

Supermarkets in France forced to ditch plastic and set up ‘refill stations’ selling unpackaged goods

The Times 04/01/2021

The week Kamala Harris became the 2024 Democratic nominee in 48 hours

07/25/2024

The two tumultuous weeks in July 2024 started with a sniper shooting at the former president, followed by the Republican Convention within days. The president's address calling for calm, Trump's 90 RNC address which rambled to veer off course. Second thoughts about Trump and Biden's age and calls by Democrats for Biden to withdraw after the faltering delivery in the debate. Biden has Covid and isolates for a few days. On July 22 around 1.45 pm Biden puts out a letter on X (Twitter) that he is withdrawing and giving his full support to Kamala. Within hours Harris has overwhelming support. The next day morning Harris has secured the delegates needed. By the 24th in 48 hours she has raised $250 million for the campaign and about 100,000 volunteers. A dizzying pace for 48 hours that riveted the attention of the American people and the world.

Grouped Articles

With Speech to Teachers, Harris Waded into a Fiery Education Debate

NYTimes.com 07/25/2024

Kamala Harris: A woman of firsts – DW – 07/23/2024

dw.com 07/25/2024

‘Capable’ Harris and Biden’s legacy: key takeaways from the president’s address

The Guardian 07/25/2024

Biden Says He Will ‘Pass the Torch’ to Harris in Oval Office Address After Ending Campaign

WSJ 07/24/2024

Opinion | Kamala Harris Confounds the Republicans

WSJ 07/24/2024

President Biden Addresses the Nation

YouTube 07/25/2024

Mitch MConnell, Mike Johnson, Pat Schumer and the effort to get Ukraine Aid passed through the US Congress in April 2024

04/26/2024

At a critical juncture which Lyrarc compared to the 1948 effort by Harry Truman to get Congress to support aid to Greece and Turkey. Devastated by the war Greece and Turkey's democracies faced an imminent threat from a Communist takeover supported by the Soviet bloc. Ukraine was at a critical juncture in the war with Russia when Biden met Republican Speaker Mike Johnson at the White House with Mitch McConnell and Pat Schumer in Feb 2024. Schumer said a lot of the credit goes to McConnell to convince 31 Republican Senators a majority of his caucus to support Ukraine Aid at a critical moment.

Grouped Articles

Aid to Ukraine seemed dead. Then secretive talks revived it.

Washington Post 04/25/2024

Bucking G.O.P. Isolationists, McConnell Was Linchpin in Winning Ukraine Aid

NYTimes.com 04/24/2024

‘Kharkiv Is Unbreakable’: A Battered City Carries On

NYTimes.com 04/24/2024

Opinion | Ukraine Aid in the Light of History

NYTimes.com 04/24/2024

Senate Approves Aid for Ukraine and Israel, Sending It to Biden’s Desk

NYTimes.com 04/24/2024

Speaker Johnson’s Ukraine Package Clears Key Hurdle With Democratic Help

WSJ 04/19/2024

Mitch MConnell, Mike Johnson, Pat Schumer and the effort to get Ukraine Aid passed through the US Congress in April 2024

04/26/2024

At a critical juncture which Lyrarc compared to the 1948 effort by Harry Truman to get Congress to support aid to Greece and Turkey. Devastated by the war Greece and Turkey's democracies faced an imminent threat from a Communist takeover supported by the Soviet bloc. Ukraine was at a critical juncture in the war with Russia when Biden met Republican Speaker Mike Johnson at the White House with Mitch McConnell and Pat Schumer in Feb 2024. Schumer said a lot of the credit goes to McConnell to convince 31 Republican Senators a majority of his caucus to support Ukraine Aid at a critical moment.

Grouped Articles

Aid to Ukraine seemed dead. Then secretive talks revived it.

Washington Post 04/25/2024

Bucking G.O.P. Isolationists, McConnell Was Linchpin in Winning Ukraine Aid

NYTimes.com 04/24/2024

‘Kharkiv Is Unbreakable’: A Battered City Carries On

NYTimes.com 04/24/2024

Opinion | Ukraine Aid in the Light of History

NYTimes.com 04/24/2024

Senate Approves Aid for Ukraine and Israel, Sending It to Biden’s Desk

NYTimes.com 04/24/2024

Speaker Johnson’s Ukraine Package Clears Key Hurdle With Democratic Help

WSJ 04/19/2024

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

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


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