During the 2024 US Presidential campaign, and in its immediate aftermath, a lot of words were expended both by Trump himself, and especially by Trump’s newest billionaire ally, Elon Musk, on the subject of the federal budget deficit and how this could, or, more stridently, would, be remedied. The anti-China tariffs, for example, were supposed […]
One of the centerpieces of Trump’s 2024 Presidential campaign was his promise to, once in office, enact a harsh across-the-board tariff against all Chinese imports into the US. As he repeatedly made the case in his campaign appearances, doing so would, on the one hand, restore America’s long-lost industrial base by protecting it against Chinese […]
To be completely honest, I could probably have written a largely identical post a month ago, or even earlier. At that juncture, however, I would have come up against two valid counterpoints – that the polls were too close to call, meaning that it were still possible for my specific criticisms to end up as […]
I felt, subjectively, that Trump was going to pull it out around 11 o’clock in the evening, Eastern Time. I had put up the election night livestream from NBC News in on of the windows on my home computer, and it was around 11 or so that one of their presenters, standing next to a […]
Without apologies to the Bard of Avon – to Trump, or not to Trump, that is the question… We begin the analysis of the upcoming Presidential Election in the US with two facts that are beyond dispute. One, as with many previous elections, this particular contest will be decided by a relative handful of so-called […]