BoycottUnitedStates

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27236764

> Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's kicking out the new Ambassador from South Africa — accusing him of hating America and hating Donald Trump.

Thousands of businesses and millions of people (Americans and Europeans) are going to suffer because of the trade war with the U.S. I’m not sure why the EU doesn’t instead just scrap carbon credits for Tesla (Tesla generated over $2bn in credits globally last year and will be unprofitable without them).

It is clear that Musk is a pertinent asset to Trump and that Musk has significant influence over the administration. So instead of implementing broad tariffs, why not isolate an obvious target?

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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/5471

> cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58323257 > > > cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9179673 > > > > > Verwechslungsgefahr!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27233131

> >Near the start of this episode, Yeva Nersisyan talks with Steve about leftist economists who are still wedded to the belief that government spending relies on taxpayer money. She says if an academic on the left uses the ‘taxpayer dollar’ framing, then you cannot be surprised when the right uses it too – to say they’re saving taxpayer money, cutting wastefulness, cutting inefficiency. It’s why being consistent is so important. If one side can use it, the other side can too. > > > >“It leads to the Elon Musks of the world using this taxpayer money trope to basically take a sledgehammer or a chainsaw to the public sector.” > > > >Yeva and Steve revisit some basics of MMT, including the understanding that a government is not like a household. > >>Our own spending doesn’t really affect our own income. We’ll still get our wages, we will still have that, and then we will continue consuming, but consuming less and therefore end up with more savings. > >> > >>But it doesn’t work for the economy as a whole. Because for the economy as a whole, if spending goes down, that means there is now less income, and less income means someone somewhere is earning less and therefore they have to cut their consumption and they also have to cut their saving. And it becomes this cycle where, okay, someone cut their consumption, now someone else is earning less or the grocery store is earning less, right? And now they have to fire their workers. Now their workers don’t have income and they are spending less, and so on and so forth. > > > >Yeva and Steve go into other insights of MMT, including sectoral balances and the reality of the so-called national debt. > > > >They unravel the absurd dynamics of current economic policy and look at the implications of proposed spending cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Fallout from the government’s ruthless abandonment of social programs will be disastrous. > > > >Yeva Nersisyan is an associate professor of economics at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. She received her B.A. in economics from Yerevan State University in Armenia, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics and mathematics from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is a macroeconomist working in the Modern Money Theory, Post-Keynesian, and Institutionalist traditions. Her research interests include banking and financial instability, and fiscal and monetary theory and policy. She has published a number of papers on the topics of shadow banking, fiscal policy, government deficits and debt, and the Green New Deal. Nersisyan is currently coediting The Elgar Companion to Modern Money Theory with L. Randall Wray. > > > >Find her work at <levyinstitute.org/publications/yeva-nersisyan>

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19503358

> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-hitler-murder-public-workers-x-b2714911.html

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39964857

> Do you think an European Citizens' Initiative to ban Twitter in the EU would be beneficial and have a possibility of being successful? > > I'm sorry if this is not a good community for this question. If not please point me to one.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/32266279

> American authorities have turned to the industry association Danish Eggs and asked about the possibility of exporting eggs to the USA, reports Danish TV2 with reference to the industry magazine Fødevarewatch. The egg shortage in the USA is due to bird flu. Over 40 million animals were put down last year and prices have been driven up, which has created a political debate. Among other things, President Donald Trump blamed egg prices on former President Joe Biden in his speech to Congress. Whether Denmark will export eggs is unclear. A number of export requirements stand in the way at present, according to Danish Eggs. > > From another comment below: > > > From the Danish media: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/business/2025-03-14-usa-beder-danmark-om-hjaelp > > > > There are a few additional points > > > > - Multiple European countries have gotten similar requests, not just Denmark > > > > - American egg policy requires washing the eggs while European policy prohibits this, making it highly inconvenient. > > > > - They would want assurance that America won't suddenly put tariffs on the eggs. > > > > - If america were to pay upwards of 1€ per egg, maybe they'd have a deal. > >