The attached article dwells on small businesses dependent on confident foreign trade to continue but no mention on how Trump is causing his enthusiastic trucker supporters to be laid off

 

‘Things Have Ground to a Halt’: Tariff Uncertainty Paralyzes Businesses

The Times heard from hundreds of American companies, most of them small businesses, that face a reckoning because of President Trump’s steep import taxes.

By Daisuke Wakabayashi

Daisuke Wakabayashi, who covers business and economics in Asia, reported from Seoul.

Who wins the trade war? Every time you think you understand the state of play, President Trump simply flips the game board. The result: American economic uncertainty is now off the charts, registering highs well past the peak of pandemic panic. Economists are expecting a recession, automakers are already rolling through layoffs, and fund managers haven’t been so bearish on American assets in decades. The stock market looks more and more like a meme coin, heading for a possible rug pull, and the president looks like someone who simply enjoys inflicting pain on almost anyone while unable to feel any of it himself.

 

It’s Not Hard to Imagine a Chinese-Led Global Economy

By David Wallace-Wells

Opinion Writer

If Mr. Trump were to abandon all the tariffs he has proposed — and there is no sign of that actually happening — the problems he has already introduced wouldn’t all vanish. By tearing asunder the fabric of international relations, he has raised enduring questions about the validity of U.S. promises in trade and diplomacy, and added deep uncertainty to the planning of businesses, investors and workers around the world. He can improve the situation, and I certainly hope he does, but it’s too late to pretend that none of this has happened.

 

Bracing for a Slow-Moving, Self-Inflicted Economic Storm

The markets face a baffling prospect: continual disruptions from the White House with potentially severe consequences.

By Jeff Sommer

Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy.

April 25, 2025

Trump’s assault on Harvard won't make it less woke. Taking less money from the federal government will.

 

A Conservative Harvard Professor on How the University Can Save Itself

By 

James Hankins

April 24, 2025 9:00 pm ET

I’ve detested at least three-quarters of what the Trump administration has done so far, but it possesses one quality I can’t help admiring: energy. I don’t know which cliché to throw at you, but it is flooding the zone, firing on all cylinders, moving rapidly on all fronts at once. It is operating at a tremendous tempo, taking the initiative in one sphere after another.

 

Trump’s Single Stroke of Brilliance

By David Brooks

Opinion Columnist

I quit posting on X late last year and started blogging again because I didn't trust Musk

 

They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.

By Stuart A. Thompson 

April 23, 2025

When Mr. Musk purchased X in 2022, he promised to create a free speech haven and named himself a “free speech absolutist.”

Critics still feared that Mr. Musk would use his control of the app to pick and choose his favorites, amplifying voices he admired while suppressing people or topics he loathed.

The New York Times found three users on X who feuded with Mr. Musk in December only to see their reach on the social platform practically vanish overnight. The accounts are the starkest signs yet that Mr. Musk or others at the company have the power to punish critics and that they may be willing to use it, startling free speech advocates who hoped that the billionaire would be their champion.

United States Department of State whose offices were built in a formerly swampy area of Washington, D.C. , known as Foggy Bottom because of the vapors from the swamp and office

 

Critics Call Rubio’s Overhaul Plan a Blow to U.S. Values

By Michael Crowley

Michael Crowley covers diplomacy and the State Department. He reported from Washington.

So Trump backs off but China doesn't which would put American Tech and Biotech in the shitter

 

Xi Is Ratcheting Up China’s Pain Threshold for a Long Fight With Trump

White House Considers Slashing China Tariffs to De-Escalate Trade War

On the other hand what is holding Trump back from eliminating the the Department of Energy?

 

Clearing Foggy Bottom

Secretary of State Marco Rubio moves to overhaul one of Washington’s more dysfunctional operations.

By 

Kimberley A. Strassel

April 23, 2025 1:33 pm ET

Who are the morons keeping Tesla's stock value at ten times what its worth?

 

Tesla Has a Problem — and It’s Not Just Elon Musk’s Politics

By Kara Carlson

March 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM GMT+1

If you hadn't noticed I'm a fan of Jason Riley

 

‘Economic Affirmative Action’ Won’t Work

Putting ‘class’ ahead of merit may be legally defensible, but it’s sure to prove counterproductiv

By 

Jason L. Riley

April 22, 2025 4:58 pm ET

I'm in the middle of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley that makes me a believer of the Lab Leak

 

On New Website, Trump Declares Lab Leak as ‘True Origins’ of Covid

By Benjamin Mueller

April 18, 2025

阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版.          

Sorry Benjamin your defense of the wet market origin of covid is pointless. I believe Matt Ridley because you state

"But the page does not address other details about the early spread of the virus, like where patients lived and worked and genetic clues from an illegal wild-animal market in Wuhan where many cases were detected. Many scientists believe that information points to the virus having spilled from animals into people at the market."

When according to Ridley few if any of the early covid victims were people who had visited the local wet market.

President Trump’s long-promised trade war with China has only just got going, and he’s already botched it.

 

Trump Has Botched His Tariff War With China

By Robert Wu

Mr. Wu is a Chinese businessman and blogger who writes about China trade and economics. He wrote from Shanghai.

Trump is such a dumb fuck

 

Trump’s Shipping Tax Goes Ahead

USTR eases it slightly, but Putin and Qatar will still be pleased.

ByThe WSJ Editorial Board

April 18, 2025 5:33 pm ET

Taking its chances in the market, Mr. Arnn believes, would make an “honest institution” of Harvard. A third of Harvard’s operating budget comes from “this one donor, and it’s the plurality of your support. And the donor is your government. It has the power of law, and it controls you.” In Mr. Arnn’s ideal world, the government is “actually supposed to be controlled by the society.” He laments that the government, “Republican and Democrat, tends to look at students like they’re factors of production.” Officials and the colleges they control “think they’re managing the future by managing what young people learn.”

 

Harvard and the View From Hillsdale

The small college doesn’t take federal money. Its president, Larry Arnn, argues higher education would be far better if no one did.

By 

Tunku Varadarajan

April 18, 2025 2:01 pm ET

President Donald Trump has targeted the US Department of Education for elimination with a new executive order, and he is right to do so. The department should never have been created. There has never been a need for it, and constitutionally, education is reserved to the people and states. As it should be: Education is about nothing less than the formation of millions of unique individuals, and control should be as close to each one as possible, not lodged in some distant bureaucracy.

 

The US Department of Education: End the Mistake

Cato Commentary

The Trump administration is targeting the department, but the battle plans need to be filled in.

APRIL 14, 2025 • COMMENTARY

By Neal McCluskey

Mr. Trump’s MAGA coalition has some of the same ideological fault lines as the Brexiteers, pitting economic nationalists like Stephen K. Bannon against globalists like Elon Musk. That has led analysts to wonder if post-Trump politics in the United States will look a lot like post-Brexit politics in Britain. “Brexit caused profound damage to the Conservative Party,” Professor Travers said. “It has been rendered unelectable because it is riven by factions. Will the Republican Party be similarly factionalized after Trump?”

 

How Brexit, a Startling Act of Economic Self-Harm, Foreshadowed Trump’s Tariffs

Britain’s decision to leave the European Union in 2016 was sold to voters as a magic bullet that would revitalize the country’s economy. Its impact is still reverberating.

By Mark Landler

Reporting from London

Trump fails at KISS - Keep it Simple Stupid

 

Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics

A long list of electronic products got a reprieve for now from at least some of the levies on China, which had been expected to take a toll on tech giants like Apple.

By Tripp Mickle and Ana Swanson

Tripp Mickle reported from San Francisco and Ana Swanson from Washington.

• April 12, 2025