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| | | | Starting in early 2018, the U.S. government imposed tariffs on over $300 billion of U.S. imports from China, increasing the average tariff rate from 2.7 percent to 17.5 percent. Much of the escalation in tariffs occurred in the second and third quarters of 2019. In response, the Chinese government retaliated, increasing the average tariff applied on U.S. exports from 5.7 percent to 20.4 percent. Our new study finds that the trade war reduced U.S. investment growth by 0.3 percentage points by the end of 2... | |
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www.jeffwise.net
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confoundedinterest.net
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| | | | Money, money! The various talking heads from The Federal Reserve keep jawboning about whether to raise rates or not. One of the major drivers of inflation is ... money. M2 Money growth YoY is growing again (blue line)! And with it, inflation has been rekindled. Mortgage rates? There is a lag between M2 Money printing... | |
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brian-sandberg.com
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| | Historian Omar Bartov, one of the leading specialists on the history of genocides, demonstrates that Israel is indeed carrying out a genocidal military campaign against Palestinians in Gaza. "Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people," according to Bartov in an op-ed essay in The New York Times. This is not a casual use of... |