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The US Cost of Living Crisis 2023-2025

02/24/2025

Cost of Living Crisis and huge gaps in income and wealth between the top 20 percent and the bottom 80 percent aggravate standards of living in America in a way not seen since the Second World War. About 45% increase in prices on cars, used cars, car repairs, housing rentals and groceries, in many household expenses, since 2019. Incomes of workers not having kept up with this kind of spiralling inflation. This is upending the social compact and leading to loss of faith in governments in the US and Europe. Change in governments in UK, France, Germany, and the US and a sense of unease among people.

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Even Disney Is Worried About the High Cost of a Disney Vacation

WSJ 02/09/2025

The US Cost of Living Crisis 2023-2025

02/24/2025

Cost of Living Crisis and huge gaps in income and wealth between the top 20 percent and the bottom 80 percent aggravate standards of living in America in a way not seen since the Second World War. About 45% increase in prices on cars, used cars, car repairs, housing rentals and groceries, in many household expenses, since 2019. Incomes of workers not having kept up with this kind of spiralling inflation. This is upending the social compact and leading to loss of faith in governments in the US and Europe. Change in governments in UK, France, Germany, and the US and a sense of unease among people.

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Even Disney Is Worried About the High Cost of a Disney Vacation

WSJ 02/09/2025

The US Cost of Living Crisis 2023-2025

02/24/2025

Cost of Living Crisis and huge gaps in income and wealth between the top 20 percent and the bottom 80 percent aggravate standards of living in America in a way not seen since the Second World War. About 45% increase in prices on cars, used cars, car repairs, housing rentals and groceries, in many household expenses, since 2019. Incomes of workers not having kept up with this kind of spiralling inflation. This is upending the social compact and leading to loss of faith in governments in the US and Europe. Change in governments in UK, France, Germany, and the US and a sense of unease among people.

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Even Disney Is Worried About the High Cost of a Disney Vacation

WSJ 02/09/2025

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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