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Rep Maxwell Frost:
1,500 at our Townhall in Wichita, Kansas this morning.
Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up.
Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.
https://bsky.app/profil…

Trump Says Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Will Double to 50% (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trump-is-praising-his-u-s-steel-deal-no-one-is-sure-what-it-means-a6cb15b5?st=B6YvLc
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p35#a250531p35

Grow a Garden, a hit game on Roblox, has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay, potentially violating Roblox's ToS (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

UN Expert Calls for 'Defossilization' of World Economy, Criminal Penalties for Big Oil Climate Disinformation | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-fuel-lobbying

Interesting piece, especially when taken in conjunction with FFOTUS' crazy tariff wars.
"How America Lost Control of the Seas"
Of course, as with many things that have gone wrong in the US, it begins with Ronnie Reagan.
https://www.theatlantic.…

How America Lost Control of the Seas
Thanks to decades of misguided policy choices, the U.S. has an astonishing lack of maritime capacity.

Put away pipelines, go with grids!
By David Suzuki with contributions from Senior Editor and Writer Ian Hanington
It’s good to see ideas such as increasing self-sufficiency and diversifying trade partners emerging in response to U.S. attacks on Canada’s economy and threats to our sovereignty. As usual, though, the fossil fuel industry and its supporters are taking advantage of this “crisis” to push for more oil and gas infrastructure, particularly pipelines.

Put away pipelines, go with grids!
A true nation-building project would be to create a renewable-powered integrated electricity grid throughout the country.

Excited to report that our script to help the public contact elected officials to demand they intervene and end #censorship has been added to 5calls.org! Make your calls today to #DefendResearch! Pass this along to your community!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15799 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

The Agentic Economy
Generative AI has transformed human-computer interaction by enabling natural language interfaces and the emergence of autonomous agents capable of acting on users' behalf. While early applications have improved individual productivity, these gains have largely been confined to predefined tasks within existing workflows. We argue that the more profound economic impact lies in reducing communication frictions between consumers and businesses. This shift could reorganize markets, redistribute powe…

Physics Will Cause the Economy to Shrink; a Look at the Next Ten Years
Our Finite World https://ourfiniteworld.com/2025/05/27/economic-contraction-coming-right-up/

Physics Will Cause the Economy to Shrink; a Look at the Next Ten Years
The world is hitting both energy and debt limits. Modeling and history show the expected results. Governments are particularly hit, as is higher education.

President Trump has pledged to bring more factory work back to the U.S., but many manufacturing jobs are already going unfilled
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/will-anyone-take-the-factory-jobs-trump-wants…

Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Low-Altitude MEC via Graph Attention Diffusion
Yifan Xue, Ruihuai Liang, Bo Yang, Xuelin Cao, Zhiwen Yu, M\'erouane Debbah, Chau Yuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21933

Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Low-Altitude MEC via Graph Attention Diffusion
With the rapid development of the low-altitude economy, air-ground integrated multi-access edge computing (MEC) systems are facing increasing demands for real-time and intelligent task scheduling. In such systems, task offloading and resource allocation encounter multiple challenges, including node heterogeneity, unstable communication links, and dynamic task variations. To address these issues, this paper constructs a three-layer heterogeneous MEC system architecture for low-altitude economic …

I remember a simpler time…
…a time when we complained about "taco"s that were the web-breaking short links (on the "t.co" domain) that Twitter imposed on us…
…not a time when the day's "taco" was a world-economy-breaking short-attentioned twit.

Sun Jingguo:
"The cost of driving a petrol car is too expensive. I save money driving an electric vehicle,"
Lu Yunfeng: "I drive an electric vehicle because I am poor,"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2d5ld8y8pwo

Cooperative Sensing and Communication Beamforming Design for Low-Altitude Economy
Fangzhi Li, Zhichu Ren, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, Jing Jin, Qixing Wang, Jiangzhou Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20244

Cooperative Sensing and Communication Beamforming Design for Low-Altitude Economy
To empower the low-altitude economy with high-accuracy sensing and high-rate communication, this paper proposes a cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework for aerial-ground networks. In the proposed system, the ground base stations (BSs) cooperatively serve the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are equipped for either joint communication and sensing or sensing-only operations. The BSs employ coordinated beamforming to simultaneously transmit communication and sensi…

"The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
vs.
"The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."
By 12pts all voters and by 42pts Dem voters prefer the second statement. They're right!

Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance"
Democrats are asking themselves some hard questions as they ponder how they lost the 2024 election.

Americans grow uneasy about the economy | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/consumer-confidence-conference-board-economy-spending-1ef56ac698f194203848df1968567c85

Cooperative Bistatic ISAC Systems for Low-Altitude Economy
Zhenkun Zhang, Yining Xu, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, Yiming Yu, Jiangzhou Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18067

Cooperative Bistatic ISAC Systems for Low-Altitude Economy
The burgeoning low-altitude economy (LAE) necessitates integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems capable of high-accuracy multi-target localization and velocity estimation under hardware and coverage constraints inherent in conventional ISAC architectures. This paper addresses these challenges by proposing a cooperative bistatic ISAC framework within MIMO-OFDM cellular networks, enabling robust sensing services for LAE applications through standardized 5G New Radio (NR) infrastructure…

Blaine Cook, an original Twitter architect is one of the backers of the new Canadian social platform #Gander
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi…

Tech leaders ready launch of Canadian social-media platform Gander to buck U.S. dominance
Founders aim to create alternative that addresses content, data sovereignty concerns

Acrobatics, accidents and legal loopholes: The uncertain world of stunt performers | Economy and Business | EL PAÍS English https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-06-22/acrobat…

Acrobatics, accidents and legal loopholes: The uncertain world of stunt performers
Despite risking their lives at work, there is no legislative framework to protect these professionals

“when I stopped chasing eyeballs, I started building trust. When I ditched the algorithm, I found an audience. Not a crowd—an audience. People who don’t just scroll past, but actually stop. Read. Think. Reply.”
- @…
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/notes-from-the-exit-why-i-left-the-attention-economy/

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/06/16/france-shuts-down-israeli-booths-at-paris-air-show-for-showcasing-offensive-weapons_6742391_19.html
France shuts…

France shuts five Israeli booths at Paris Air Show for showcasing 'offensive weapons'
Black walls were installed around the stands of five Israeli defense firms at the trade fair on Monday, a decision Israel condemned as 'outrageous.

Trump Considers Naming Next Fed Chair Early in Bid to Undermine Powell (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/trump-considers-naming-next-fed-chair-early-in-bid-to-undermine-powell-d3edcb9c?st=RsjPmE&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p141#a250625p141

“The Americans must understand—any US military incursion will undoubtedly lead to irreversible consequences.”
Experts believe one of the repercussions of US military adventurism against the Islamic Republic would be the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran controls.
According to Tanker Trackers data, more than 80 percent of oil passes through this narrow strip 
-- and if it’s closed, the global economy and energy sector will be dealt a heavy blow.
Most multi-nation…

Strait of Hormuz closure in event of US aggression against Iran to paralyze world economy
As regional tensions escalate amid the Israeli regime’s brutal aggression against the Islamic Republic, the possibility of the closure of Strait of Hormuz is a possibility, according to experts.

Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate | Oil and Gas News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/6/13/oil-markets-are-spooked-as-iran-israel-tensions-escalate?traffic_source=rss…

Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate
Israel’s strike on Iran, and Tehran’s subsequent retaliation fuel fears of Strait of Hormuz trade disruptions.

Some of you ... may have decided that, this year, you're going to celebrate
it the old-fashioned way, with your family sitting around stringing
cranberries and exchanging humble, handmade gifts, like on "The Waltons".
Well, you can forget it. If everybody pulled that kind of subversive stunt,
the economy would collapse overnight. The government would have to
intervene: it would form a cabinet-level Department of Holiday Gift-Giving,
which would s…

Western governments: Industrial policy doesn't work. The government is worse at picking winners than the market.
Chinese government: Our industrial policy is to create a native electric car industry that can beat Western petrol car makers.
Western governments: Hey, no fair!
BBC News - How China made electric vehicles mainstream

"Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035"
#Energy #Renewables

Study Says Clean Energy Rollbacks Will Cost Economy $1.1 Trillion by 2035 - Inside Climate News
As the Trump administration makes the economic case for the repeal of climate policies, sobering numbers emerge on health and energy costs.

Every $1 in NIH funding in 2024 generated $2.56 in economic activity (PDF):
https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UMR_NIH-Role-in-Sustaining-US-Economy-FY2024-2025-Update.…

Prediction for today from 2016:
"The United Kingdom is now the region’s foremost knowledge-based economy. We lead the world in biotech, law, education, the audio-visual sector, financial services and software. New industries, from 3D printing to driverless cars, have sprung up around the country."
https://www.

What Britain looks like after Brexit
You’re reading Reaction.

“A cautionary history: In 1999, the US coal industry claimed that information technology would need half the nation’s electricity by 2020, so a strong economy required far more coal-fired power stations. Such claims were spectacularly wrong but widely believed, even by top officials. Hundreds of unneeded power plants were built, hurting investors. Despite that costly lesson, similar dynamics are now unfolding again.”
- Amory
“It’s all about design.”
- Me

US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to challenge Apple's and Google's grip on app stores; the 2021 version never made it to a floor vote (Amber Neely/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Bipartisan Open App Markets Act revived to challenge Apple's App Store control
Big Tech's grip on the app economy is under fire again as lawmakers reintroduce the bipartisan "Open App Markets Act" aimed at breaking Apple and Google's app store dominance.

"What comes next? Perhaps it shouldn’t be so hard to imagine, given the drift of what’s now called geoeconomics. Already, China commands global trade, and modeling from Bloomberg shows that, as constituted today, the tariffs will only add to the lead — pushing many more countries to work more with China and less with America. According to one model, 30 percent of American trading partners would fully recover from even total cessation of U.S. trade within one year; within five years, more than half would. "
#GiftArticle #China #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/china-trade-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.hIwJ.AfGyLW35RqaM&smid=url-share

CIRO7.2: A Material Network with Circularity of -7.2 and Reinforcement-Learning-Controlled Robotic Disassembler
Federico Zocco, Monica Malvezzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11748

CIRO7.2: A Material Network with Circularity of -7.2 and Reinforcement-Learning-Controlled Robotic Disassembler
The competition over natural reserves of minerals is expected to increase in part because of the linear-economy paradigm based on take-make-dispose. Simultaneously, the linear economy considers end-of-use products as waste rather than as a resource, which results in large volumes of waste whose management remains an unsolved problem. Since a transition to a circular economy can mitigate these open issues, in this paper we begin by enhancing the notion of circularity based on compartmental dynam…

The paradox driving Trump's bad polling numbers (Christian Paz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/417577/trump-paradox-poll-iran-economy-approval-number
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p24#a250624p24

Beim Blue Economy Forum in #Monaco riefen Staats- und Regierungschefs zu globalem Handeln zum Schutz der #Ozeane auf.
Emmanuel #Macron kritisierte die Leugnung des Klimawandels und betonte die wissen…

Ozeankonferenz in Monaco: Macron tadelt Klimaleugner
Am letzten Tag des Blue Economy Forum in Monaco riefen die Staats- und Regierungschefs zu globalen Maßnahmen zum Schutz der Ozeane auf. #EuropeNews

Whether you're directly affected or observing from the outside – this is a moment to reflect:
🔹 How resilient is your skillset in an uncertain economy?
🔹 Are you building for long-term adaptability or short-term optimization?
🔹 Are you open to considering a potentially lucrative side hustel as a means to weather economic storms?
If your answer to that last question is ‘Yes’ or ‘Maybe’, message me and we can chat further.

HybridRAG-based LLM Agents for Low-Carbon Optimization in Low-Altitude Economy Networks
Jinbo Wen, Cheng Su, Jiawen Kang, Jiangtian Nie, Yang Zhang, Jianhang Tang, Dusit Niyato, Chau Yuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15947

HybridRAG-based LLM Agents for Low-Carbon Optimization in Low-Altitude Economy Networks
Low-Altitude Economy Networks (LAENets) are emerging as a promising paradigm to support various low-altitude services through integrated air-ground infrastructure. To satisfy low-latency and high-computation demands, the integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems plays a vital role, which offloads computing tasks from terminal devices to nearby UAVs, enabling flexible and resilient service provisions for ground users. To promote the development of LA…

The Theory of Economic Complexity
C\'esar A. Hidalgo, Viktor Stojkoski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18829 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

The Theory of Economic Complexity
Economic complexity estimates rely on eigenvectors derived from matrices of specialization to explain differences in economic growth, inequality, and sustainability. Yet, despite their widespread use, we still lack a principled theory that can deduce these eigenvectors from first principles and place them in the context of a mechanistic model. Here, we calculate these eigenvectors analytically for a model where the output of an economy in an activity increases with the probability the economy i…

Heterogeneous Exposures to Systematic and Idiosyncratic Risk across Crypto Assets: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach
Nektarios Aslanidis, Aurelio Bariviera, George Kapetanios, Vasilis Sarafidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21100

Heterogeneous Exposures to Systematic and Idiosyncratic Risk across Crypto Assets: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach
This paper analyzes realized return behavior across a broad set of crypto assets by estimating heterogeneous exposures to idiosyncratic and systematic risk. A key challenge arises from the latent nature of broader economy-wide risk sources: macro-financial proxies are unavailable at high-frequencies, while the abundance of low-frequency candidates offers limited guidance on empirical relevance. To address this, we develop a two-stage ``divide-and-conquer'' approach. The first stage estimates ex…

Take back our economy from the oligarchs by democratizing it
Privatization of public services has proven to be a massive failure for housing, healthcare, transportation, energy, etc.
Publicly funded and operated services are how we will save our democracy!
https://youtu.be/sWHxKD27XKk

Stay away from windows, minister...
Russia's economy minister says the country is on 'the brink of recession'
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russias-economy-minister-says-country-125354040.html

I just got email from Delta Airlines. As of October of this year, flying economy earns you zero frequent flyer miles.
That's fine, it just means that I have to discount competing brands by 5% or something when comparing, since (for instance) economy on JetBlue *will* give me miles (points).

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
BUNKER LUNATIC'S DELIRIUM: #PUTIN ABOUT RUSSIA ECONOMY & UKRAINE Vlog 1080: War in #Ukraine

Learned Off-Grid Imager for Low-Altitude Economy with Cooperative ISAC Network
Yixuan Huang, Jie Yang, Shuqiang Xia, Chao-Kai Wen, Shi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07799

Learned Off-Grid Imager for Low-Altitude Economy with Cooperative ISAC Network
The low-altitude economy is emerging as a key driver of future economic growth, necessitating effective flight activity surveillance using existing mobile cellular network sensing capabilities. However, traditional monostatic and localizationbased sensing methods face challenges in fusing sensing results and matching channel parameters. To address these challenges, we model low-altitude surveillance as a compressed sensing (CS)-based imaging problem by leveraging the cooperation of multiple bas…

ReLink: Computational Circular Design of Planar Linkage Mechanisms Using Available Standard Parts
Maxime Escande, Kristina Shea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19657

ReLink: Computational Circular Design of Planar Linkage Mechanisms Using Available Standard Parts
The Circular Economy framework emphasizes sustainability by reducing resource consumption and waste through the reuse of components and materials. This paper presents ReLink, a computational framework for the circular design of planar linkage mechanisms using available standard parts. Unlike most mechanism design methods, which assume the ability to create custom parts and infinite part availability, ReLink prioritizes the reuse of discrete, standardized components, thus minimizing the need for…

Amazon says it plans to invest £40B in the UK economy over the next three years, including opening four new warehouses; Amazon invested £12B in the UK in 2023 (Freya Jones/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"I don’t believe anyone was thinking about [the] 51st state idea. Truthfully, the intent was to not get political, but to focus on social, cultural, and economic ties."
I hate this nonsense. With great respect and in kindness: Mr. City Councillor in Bellngham needs to put on his big boy pants and admit that yes it is political and yes it is about the 51st state rhetoric and all the scary border stuff from his federal government.
His choice not to admit that and speak against that, and worse, to act like it doesn’t exist, is a further insult and will not help to get BC/Canadians to resume visits.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #51stState #NoFascism #TheAmericanFascist #Economy #Tourism
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/home2/video-bellingham-letter-of-support-sent-to-bc-communities-8034581

In Defense of the Middle Class:
When entrepreneur, NYU Business professor, philanthropist & UCLA Bruin 👌 Scott Galloway breaks down how the biillionaire class is destroying America... and how this will end.
#economy #america

not an excuse, but I think a situational factor benefiting lefty candidates in NYC compared to SF is New Yorkers aren't worried about their city's economy collapsing. SF's uniquely empty downtown leads to fear of collapse leads to more conservative voting patterns

Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report Q2 2025
Arbor Realty Trust - May 22, 2025
“Amid ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, the small multifamily sector remains well-positioned to weather volatility and build on market momentum as the economy navigates stormy conditions.”

Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report Q2 2025 - Arbor Realty
Asset Valuations Edge Higher as Credit Conditions Tighten

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13266 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfi…

Impact of Climate transition on Credit portfolio's loss with stochastic collateral
The aim of this work is to propose an end-by-end modeling framework to evaluate the risk measures of a bank's portfolio of collateralized loans in an economy subject to the climate transition. The economy, organized in sectors, is driven by a multidimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) productivity process while the climate transition is declined thanks to continuous deterministic carbon price and intensities processes. We thus derive the dynamics of macroeconomic variables for each scenario. By c…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying the quiet part out loud in a CNN interview about impending job losses due to AI:
"There's an inherent social contract in democracy where ultimately the ordinary person has a certain amount of leverage because they're contributing to the economy.
"If that leverage goes away, then it's harder to make democracies work, and it's harder to prevent concentration of power."

Cooking the books? Fears Trump could target statisticians if data disappoints | Donald Trump | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/18/trump-statisticians-economy-figures

The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year
as Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce and increases economic uncertainty,
the World Bank said on Tuesday in a report that underscores the toll of America’s trade war.
Despite the weakening outlook, the global economy is not expected to fall into a recession, the World Bank said.
However, the trade tension is setting the stage for the weakest decade of growth since the 1960s.
Economic dev…

World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.

Ethiopians Brew Success as Coffee and Cash Pile Up Thanks to Transformational Sustainable Forestry Program https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ethiopians-brew-success-as-coffee-and-cash-pile-up-thanks-to-sustainable-…

Ethiopians Brew Success as Coffee and Cash Pile Up Thanks to Transformational Sustainable Forestry Program
Coffee is a major lifeblood of Ethiopia's economy, (a quarter of the whole) accounting for around half of the livelihood of 15 million people

The President who
• ruining/ruined economy
• ex-best friend says he's in Epstein files
• increasing unemployment
• not giving people due process before sending to foreign prisons for life
• ignoring & trying to destroy courts
• arrested & handcuffed Congresspeople & staffs
• destroying millions' health insurance
• destroying Social Security
• making an intelligence file for every American w/Palantir
also wants to…

Habe das Angebot der Antifa abgelehnt, in USA zu demonstrieren, weil sie nur Economy zahlen wollten.

John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more (LastWeekTonight on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc

@… This is a silly dispute. When bad actors exploit real problems, not trying to fix the prblems is the wrong answer. Should anti-Nazi Germans in 1930 have stopped trying to fix the economy?
And at the same time scientists should try to be as precise as possible in what they say.

Disaster Risk Financing through Taxation: A Framework for Regional Participation in Collective Risk-Sharing
Fallou Niakh, Arthur Charpentier, Caroline Hillairet, Philipp Ratz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18895

Disaster Risk Financing through Taxation: A Framework for Regional Participation in Collective Risk-Sharing
We consider an economy composed of different risk profile regions wishing to be hedged against a disaster risk using multi-region catastrophe insurance. Such catastrophic events inherently have a systemic component; we consider situations where the insurer faces a non-zero probability of insolvency. To protect the regions against the risk of the insurer's default, we introduce a public-private partnership between the government and the insurer. When a disaster generates losses exceeding the tot…

The U.S. Economy Is Headed Toward an Uncomfortable Summer (Nick Timiraos/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-tariffs-us-economy-business-investment-7d3c6476?st=A1Vq8E&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p46#a250608p46

tryna make myself mentally register im an adult now. are there any adult things besides
- jobs (my workplace is filled with child laborers)
- independence (in this economy?)
- sex (need to be spiritually bonded with them to feel like i won't drop dead)
- drinking (not old enough to drink)
- gambling (the house always wins)
- voting (i hit voting age in an age where it don't mean shit)

@… @… I smell a new gig-economy app!!

YouTube releases its 2024 US Impact Report, which says YouTube's creative ecosystem contributed $55B to US GDP in 2024 and supported 490K full-time jobs (Alexandra Veitch/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/2024-us-youtube-impact-re…

2024 U.S. YouTube Impact Report
Learn how YouTube empowers creators and fuels the US economy. Our new report highlights a $55B US GDP contribution and 490K jobs supported, showcasing two decades of shared growth and creator success.

[Economist] Patrick Artus: 'In the US, attacks on the public research system and universities compromise growth prospects'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/06/21/patrick-artus-in-the-us-attacks-on-the-public-research-system-and-universities-compromise-growth-prospects_6742589_19.html

Impact of Tariff Wars on Global Economy
N. S. Gonchar, O. P. Dovzhyk, A. S. Zhokhin, W. H. Kozyrsky, A. P. Makhort
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05576 https:/…

Impact of Tariff Wars on Global Economy
The Ricardian model of world trade based on comparative advantage is not sufficient to justify equal trade relations.The existing model of trade relations does not explain the distribution of income among trading countries. This paper presents a method for building equitable trade relations. Its essence is to present an algorithm for building such trade relations, based on the previously proposed model of world trade, that the trade balance of each country would be equal to zero. Under such con…

Demand for LNG in Europe dropped by 18 per cent between 2022 and 2024, and Canadian exports would have a hard time competing in Asian markets, says advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance. “Investing in infrastructure that will be very expensive and likely won’t be profitable will weaken our economy rather than strengthen it,” Renaud Gignac, an economist and senior adviser for the group, said in an interview.

New report casts doubt on potential revival of Quebec LNG project
Reviving a liquefied natural gas export project in Quebec's Saguenay region would be costly and likely unprofitable, a shareholder advocacy group says.

U.S., EU Near Deal on Non-Tariff Trade Irritants (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/u-s-eu-near-deal-on-non-tariff-trade-irritants-455c42f1
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p8#a250621p8

"But Wall Street professionals, like so many other ostensibly smart people, refused to see Trump clearly, mistaking his skill as a demagogue for wisdom as a policymaker. “I don’t think this was foreseeable,” a mournful Ackman posted on X on Monday. “I assumed economic rationality would be paramount.” What an odd assumption to make about a man who bankrupted casinos.
Berezin thinks Wall Street still hasn’t come to terms with the cost of the nascent Trump presidency. “I do think that at this point we might have passed the event horizon, meaning that even if Trump backs off from the tariffs, there’s been enough damage done to the U.S. economy, to the global economy, to investor confidence, consumer confidence, that we’re probably going to see a recession regardless of what happens,” he said.""
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.q7Gk.5YS3EpoLnh8C&smid=url-share

Collective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address AI-Driven Power Concentration
Nicholas Vincent, Matthew Prewitt, Hanlin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10272

Collective Bargaining in the Information Economy Can Address AI-Driven Power Concentration
This position paper argues that there is an urgent need to restructure markets for the information that goes into AI systems. Specifically, producers of information goods (such as journalists, researchers, and creative professionals) need to be able to collectively bargain with AI product builders in order to receive reasonable terms and a sustainable return on the informational value they contribute. We argue that without increased market coordination or collective bargaining on the side of th…

Donald Trump’s immigration plan needs a hard reset
On the one hand, the presence of millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. makes a mocks our laws and outrages much of the public.
On the other, many industries rely on them and their sudden departure would disrupt the economy
Those dueling impulses are why the past few decades have seen tough laws and lax enforcement.

Trump’s most recent idea for splitting the difference
— cracking down in blue areas of the …

Donald Trump’s immigration plan needs a hard reset
The president’s 360-degree turn on workplace raids shows his current policy isn’t working. There’s an easier way.

As Trump shuts out migrants, Spain opens its doors and fuels economic growth (Anthony Faiola/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/20/spain-immigrants-economy-progressive-policies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p107#a250620p107

Americans cut back sharply on their spending last month amid tariffs
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/economy/us-retail-sales-may

My whole body hurts watching this amazing man.
I’m glad he’s picking radishes so I don’t have to. I’m grateful for his work. I wish our economy valued his work as highly as mine. I haven’t worked that hard in decades or anywhere but on a farm…
I can’t understand how we have people so bigoted that they believe we need to rid our nation of the people who make it possible for us to eat well affordably, just because they are “foreigners” who haven’t got the right papers.

A look at China's efforts to grow its "low-altitude economy", or airspace below 1,000 meters, by leveraging its strengths in drone production and R&D (William Langley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/65e4bb30-b04c-4f0e-8686-effb96398999…

China made millions of drones. Now it has to find uses for them
Authorities bet ‘low-altitude economy’ will be next driver of growth

The dollar sank to its lowest level in more than three years on Thursday
and the FTSE 100 closed at a record high as Donald Trump’s latest trade threats and the weakening economy appeared to bring forward interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
Foreign exchange traders sold the dollar in favour of the yen and the euro,
which both climbed by about 1% against the US currency to leave it almost 10% down on its value against a basket of currencies since the beginning of the …

"Anti-Net Zero Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns Urges Offshore Wind Investment"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #WindTurbines

Anti-Net Zero Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns Urges Offshore Wind Investment
A Reform UK mayor who claims “net zero madness” is “bankrupting Britain” has called for investment in an offshore wind project “to boost growth” in the local economy. Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who was elected as Greater Lincolnshire Mayor in the 1 May local elections, has been a vocal opponent of climate action and renewable energy […]

Hiring Slowed in May, With 139,000 New Jobs (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs-report-may-2025-unemployment-economy-87f19437
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p49#a250606p49

Q&A with Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith on the Ikea-owned platform's history, Taskers earning up to $50/hour, AI assistants, zero fees, high suburban use, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-…

Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith isn’t afraid of AI robots replacing human labor
The head of the Ikea-owned gig work platform on what labor looks like in the future.

""economic dynamics" in Russia are "rapidly declining, with a risk of a technical recession in the second and third quarters" of 2025."
Putin Warned of Dual Threat to Russian Economy: 'Countdown to a Crisis'
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-warned-dual-threat-russian-economy-countdown-crisis-2082449

While the rare earth market is dominated by China, Canada also has some of the largest reserves in the world.
But new rare earth mining projects have to balance the need for these materials with the environmental impacts that mining has on the land. 
Instead of starting from scratch, the University of Alberta and Calgary-based CVW CleanTech are trying to mine these valuable substances from tailings, a waste product of open-pit oilsands mining.
Previously known as Titanium …

New-age prospectors finding rare earth elements in tailings from Alberta oilsands | CBC News
Rare earth elements are a key part of the transition to a green economy. From magnets in wind turbines to batteries in electric vehicles, they’re needed for technology that is increasingly in demand.

‘Open prison’: The forced labour driving India’s $5 trillion economy dream | Labour Rights | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/7/open-prison-the-forced-labour-driving-indias-5-trillion-economy-dream?traffic_source=rss

Young Graduates Are Facing an Employment Crisis (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs-unemployment-rise-young-people-ce4704d8
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p69#a250616p69

Donald Trump Is Destroying the Economy and Waging War on the Poor (Paul Krugman/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-is-destroying-the-economy-and-waging-war-on-the-poor-an-1235356280/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p17#a250608p17

What do we know about the US-China trade deal? | Trade War News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/6/11/what-do-we-know-about-the-us-china-trade-deal?traffic_source=rss

'Golden Share' in U.S. Steel Gives Trump Extraordinary Control (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/business/economy/golden-share-us-steel-nippon-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PE8.vRQH.XDJWjFCELJOv&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p67#a250615p67

U.S. could lose more immigrants than it gains for first time in 50 years (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/15/trump-immigration-impact-economy-inflation/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5OTYwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxMzQyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDk5NjAwMDAsImp0aSI6IjJkMGNmNTFjLWFjZGYtNDM4Mi1iZTM4LTkyYWQ1YjZiZTUwNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzA2LzE1L3RydW1wLWltbWlncmF0aW9uLWltcGFjdC1lY29ub215LWluZmxhdGlvbi8ifQ.rHKCwHE0llmadbqDjsSp6yVpLBym8nQ_ne4Nbn5aQ7k&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p52#a250615p52

Donald Trump admitted on Truth Social that his mass deportations are hurting farmers and the economy.
Those removals are “taking very good, longtime workers away” from farms and hotels, Trump declared,
adding that those workers are proving “impossible to replace.”
To be clear, Trump was talking about his own immigration policies.
That’s a stunning acknowledgment that Trump’s forced mass removals are targeting hard-working folks and that those undocumented immigrants…

Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening
A little-noticed letter from vulnerable House Republicans acknowledges the flaw at the heart of Trump’s mass deportations. Democrats: Seize on this!

You won’t hear this on the news but Scotland and other countries have declared their economy will be based on wellbeing, not GDP.
And They’re not alone.
Countries worldwide are making the same shift.
But here’s the thing: people aren’t waiting for governments.
EThey’re building wellbeing economies themselves through cooperatives, people’s assemblies, and businesses that put purpose over profit.
-- J Friday

#GiftLink He's ruined the brand
"Fidelity to blind justice and institutional integrity made the U.S. economy exceptional. No more."
Opinion | How Trump is damaging America’s economic brand - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/4jVtuei

U.S. and China Agree to Get Geneva Pact Back on Track (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/u-s-and-china-agree-to-get-geneva-pact-back-on-track-695eb5f5?st=w5GiCS&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p160#a250610p160

Late-night Trump brag shattered by 'damning' report issued just hours later - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-economy-report/

Appeals Court Keeps Trump's Sweeping Tariffs in Place for Now (James Fanelli/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/appeals-court-keeps-trumps-sweeping-tariffs-in-place-for-now-5f5c7f35
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p151#a250610p151

OatFi, whose APIs handle underwriting, origination, and capital deployment for B2B payment providers, raised a $24M Series A led by White Star Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/03/oatfi-24-milliom-b2b-credit

Exclusive: OatFi nabs $24M for embedded B2B credit
Slow payment terms choke company cash flows across the $35 trillion B2B economy.

Fox News Poll: Economic pessimism abates slightly as voters reflect on the economy (Dana Blanton/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-economic-pessimism-abates-slightly
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p66#a250619p66

Trump Doubles Steel and Aluminum Tariffs - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/business/economy/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum.html

From Mario to the barrio: Globalization explained through the Nintendo Switch 2 (El País)
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-06-03/from-mario-to-the-barrio-globalization-explained-through-the-nintendo-switch-2.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p27#a250603p27