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Tariff Wars. The Best Response to Tariffs is to Cut One’s Own.

It is now time for the world to generally cut tariffs. Tariffs are analogous to punishing one’s kids for preferring the neighbour’s cooking. The tariff nation’s population pays. Tariffs are the cost of accessing the US consumer. The world has been too reliant on the US consumer. Time to find other sources of custom. Balance
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2025 Geo Macro Scenario A

America seeks a new world order based on areas of influence. It has no time, interest or resources to deal with the Asian and European timezones. It seeks a pragmatic solution to the political and economic problems in those timezones. America’s area of influence is geographically defined and is latitudinally expansionist. The Asian timezone will
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Fiction. Foundation CG. 2025 02

I have a dream… We achieve breakthroughs in material science that lets us manipulate molecules to obtain all kinds of new properties from old materials, like plant fibre. I dream that though material science and nanotechnology we invent carbonium, a class of cellulose which is basically wood, treated and reconstituted so that its structure gives
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Thoughts from the Bar Stool. 2025 02

People show off on social media. On average, one is likely to encounter more people who have a better life than they do. Social media makes people feel less well off than average. We were told that capitalism and free markets gave us a fair chance of improving our lives. It makes sense to measure
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Trump. Vichy. Lebensraum.

I am not a political scientist and lack the understanding to contemplate the implications of the second Trump presidency. I do worry about a number of things. Trump seems less antagonistic to China or Russia than to Canada, Greenland and Mexico. What unites these three countries is proximity to America. It’s not a stretch to
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