Notices by Wietze Brandsma (wabrandsma@mastodon.social)

Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/17/joseph-stiglitz-economist-donald-trump-policies-tariffs-stagflation-risk-us-investment
Uncertainty created by tariffs and contempt for rule of law will deter investment, says top economist

@br00t4c There's another way https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham
Canada should tear up the IP laws that Canada has agreed to in order to get tariff-free access to American markets – and not impose tariffs on American goods.

That way, Canadians can still buy cheap American goods, and then they can save billions of dollars every year on the consumables, parts, software, and service for those goods.

Why Did Trump Win? These Dems Have Discovered a Very Disturbing Answer https://newrepublic.com/article/188238/trump-won-voter-perception-2024
Are you sitting down? Turns out it proved very hard to persuade swing voters that Trump was a bad president.

Undecided voters viewed the post-Covid status quo and the very real pain of inflation only through the prism of their dislike of Biden.

Prime's gonna add more ads. They brought in ads in January, and people didn't cancel their Prime subscriptions, so Amazon figures that they can make Prime even worse and make more money:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/amazon-prime-video-is-getting-more-ads-next-year/

What has been driving inflation? Economists' thinking may have changed
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/1175487806/corporate-profit-price-spiral-wage-debate
Economists say that inflation is just too much money chasing too few goods.

But, it seems like the wage-price spiral hasn't happened. In fact wages, on average, have not kept up with inflation.

There are now concerns about a totally different kind of spiral: a profit-price spiral.