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2 weeks ago | 
theatlantic.com | Roge Karma
Nothing here has ended well. In fact, it hasn’t even ended. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The era of massive global tariffs lasted approximately 13 hours. After half a day of chaos in the bond market, Donald Trump announced that he was pausing his “reciprocal” tariffs on all countries besides China for 90 days.
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2 weeks ago | 
theatlantic.com | Roge Karma
Listen1.0x0:0016:43Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Donald Trump and his allies on the populist right believe they have a compelling argument for why the GOP is the true blue-collar party: Immigration is killing the American worker, and only Trump will put a stop to it.
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2 weeks ago | 
theatlantic.com | Roge Karma
Instead of leading to reduced trade barriers, the new global tariff plan is all but guaranteed to raise them.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Roge Karma
3 hours agoUS commerce secretary slams EU beef ban: ‘their beef is weak, ours is beautiful’US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has labeled European beef ‘weak’, claiming the EU ban imports on American meat ‘because it’s beautiful’. Speaking on Fox News’ Hannity show in the aftermath of president Donald Trump’s blockbuster ‘Liberation Day’ raft of global reciprocal tariffs, Lutnick chastised the EU, which was hit with a 20% tax on all imports into the US, for not importing more from America.
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1 month ago | 
theatlantic.com | Roge Karma
QAnon for tariffs
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Roge Karma
7 hours agoJudge dreadWith help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine Good Monday morning. This is Jack Blanchard, a little bewildered by this whole March Madness business — but still very much here for sporting moments like that. So good.
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1 month ago | 
theatlantic.com | Roge Karma
America’s superrich have always found ways to avoid paying taxes, but in recent years, they’ve discovered what might be the mother of all loopholes. It’s a three-step process called “Buy, Borrow, Die,” and it allows people to amass a huge fortune, spend as much of it as they want, and pass the rest—untaxed—on to their heirs. The technique is so cleverly designed that the standard wish list of progressive tax reforms would leave it completely intact. Step one: buy.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Roge Karma
Tesla fans exposes Tesla's own shadiness in attempt to defend Autopilot crashA group of Tesla fans and investors has inadvertently exposed Tesla’s shadiness regarding crashes involving Autopilot by attempting to claim that the advanced driver-assist system was not active in a crash test. It was not only active, but it also disengaged itself less than a second before the …
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1 month ago | 
theatlantic.com | Roge Karma
The tariffs are real, and they are spectacularly foolish.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Roge Karma
3 hours agoOfficials in Canada and China are blasting the Trump administration for using illegal street fentanyl as justification for new trade tariffs that go into effect today. In a statement, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Trump's criticism "unjustified," noting that fentanyl seizures at the …
