@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-26 15:58:24
The Russian economy WILL NOT RECOVER FROM THIS – Extraordinary strikes of US sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/26/the-russian-economy-will-not.html
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-26 15:58:24
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-11-28 01:43:34
Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/27/limate-related-risks-uk-economy-security
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-28 10:10:34
Experts warn that Nvidia's large investments in data centers and startups, almost like a stimulus program, could be artificially inflating demand for its GPUs (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/jensen-huang-using-nvidia-cash-r…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-27 17:39:19
Bankruptcies Rising Across US Economy, From Households to Mom-and-Pops - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/bankruptcies-across-economy-small-business-households-corporate-2025-12
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-26 13:01:08
AI spending is boosting the economy, but many businesses are in survival mode (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/ai-spending-is-boosting-the-economy-many-businesses-in-survival-mode.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p12#a251026p12
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-27 23:57:21
The only question is what kind of hot water.
Amazon has their finger on the pulse of a lot of the economy: both retail and B2B, both corporate and consumer behavior. Honestly, with the government shut down and US gov job stats now under political control, Amazon’s probably got more, fresher, and better data about what’s going on with the US economy than just about anyone else on Earth.
What is Amazon seeing that they don’t want to say to their investors (yet)?
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-27 16:45:01
When Trump began raising tariffs earlier this year, government officials and economists feared Mexico’s export-led economy would take a devastating hit.
Instead, Mexican exports to the U.S. have grown. Because the tariff for Mexico ended up lower than for most other countries
https://www.…
@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-12-27 00:32:01
Straight from the Ministry of Truth: unemployment is now a "jobless boom."
https://www.aol.com/articles/jobless-boom-shaping-story-2026-014531927.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-27 14:41:16
The European Commission claims €80B of €120B in post-EU Chips Act investments remain on track, despite the stalled GlobalFoundries-STMicro project in France (Virginie Malingre/Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-28 08:50:42
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-11-26 17:11:40
Mark Carney says that the center of gravity in the global economy is shifting.
He’s right.
US autohegemonicide makes the US less important. It already has.
Carney on when he last spoke to potus: https://youtube.com/shorts/tiFlQahla9I
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-28 06:22:23
Widespread UN sanctions against Iran have come back into force for the first time in a decade,
after last-ditch nuclear talks with western powers failed to produce a breakthrough.
The sanctions, which came into effect late on Saturday and three months after Israel and the US bombed Iran,
bar dealings related to Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missiles program and are also expected to have wider effects on its troubled economy.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-12-27 01:46:52
California is the largest U.S. state economy, responsible for 14.5% of national GDP. By comparison, the median U.S. state contributes roughly 1% to 2% of total GDP 💰
✅ Mapped: Every State's Share of U.S. GDP
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-every-states…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-27 17:10:45
Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/27/corporate-bankruptcies-economy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p25#a251227p25
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-24 14:29:01
Democratic candidates can win Rust Belt voters by … attacking the Democratic party
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/09/democrats-rust-belt-economy
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-24 20:53:40
Trump DESTROYS Russian economy – Unexpected move by the US| Weekly Wrap-Up: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/trump-destroys-russian-economy-unexpected.html
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-12-27 15:03:20
Not the first thought that comes to mind, but this is an #environmental problem, not just about skiing or a local economy:
"Ropes once used to mark out the piste hang in tatters and bits of plastic are falling off a pylon. The old sheds at each end of the ski lifts often still contain transformers, asbestos, motor oils and greases. Over time, these substances seep into the soil and…
@hw@fediscience.org2025-11-26 07:58:10
RE: https://fediscience.org/@suomenantropologi/115614886106180185
Vale Keith Hart. That keynote from 2010 (link below) was (and still is) a compelling argument for reconnecting value theory to practical political economy by weaving together Marx's commodity fetishism, the concept of plural economy inspired by Mauss, and the digital revolution's radical cheapening of information.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-20 15:01:38
IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B, vastly outperforming ad spend in media overall, set to grow 5.7% YoY (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creator-economy-ad-spend-37-billion-for-2025/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-27 23:48:06
“I wonder how much of this is also about the economy with AI as a convenient scapegoat?”
The answer to that question is “almost all of it.” https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115448727812641385
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-24 01:03:46
Well, idk, maybe MAKE SOME FUCKING PHONES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE NEW FEATURES AND AREN'T JUST FLATTER
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-26 04:50:38
Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital (Christopher Marquis/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-11-26 08:20:49
"Farage has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other living politician. What might the country look like after a period with him in office?" Which says it all on why it is important to try to improve the UK economy
How to get the UK out of its economic hole - https://on.ft.com/4iq4UmP
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-26 14:40:40
Trump overturned decades of US trade policy in 2025. See the impact of his tariffs, in four charts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-economy-liberation-day-d3458da225c1fdfade97ed494b23e868
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p12#a251226p12
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-11-17 18:44:27
Katherine Rich gives Uber far too much credit. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2019013122/what-uber-ruling-could-mean-for-gig-economy They didn't do any of it to 'make the world be…
@vrandecic@mas.to2025-10-26 06:56:55
"Because when we look at the history of industrial bubbles, and of new technologies in general, it becomes clear that in order to cause a crash, AI doesn’t have to fail. It just has to mildly disappoint the most ardent optimists."
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/americas-fut
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-20 23:22:58
So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2025-12-27 09:17:29
Regular people out there *accumulating wealth* by simply owning a home. Such travesty. 🙄
#USA #economy #homeOwnership #wealth #sarcasm
@lindawoodrow@mastodon.social2025-11-24 07:59:48
The Serviceberry – Robin Wall Kimmerer
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-11-25 22:57:21
I found this an interesting view on the AI scraping and Hoovering everything disease.
This view focuses on the overhead and costs that such hoovering places on our packet carrying infrastructure.
"The hiQ Decision Legalized Infrastructure Theft - We Need a Federal Fix"
https://
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-10-24 09:13:11
This. 100% this: «…the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world. The global economy is far too big, it’s got to shrink, and it’s got to be distributed more equitably around the world.»
The problem is that even the politicians who understand this are helpless to do anything about it. We have surrendered our future to global corporations and the mega-rich and their hand-picked poli…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-27 16:30:44
Trump says midterm elections will be 'about pricing' despite calling affordability a 'dead' issue (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/4362763/trump-midterm-elections-pricing-despite-calling-affordability-dead-issue/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p22#a251227p22
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-12-19 20:36:24
Trump’s approval rating slips on the economy and immigration:
#USpol
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-10-26 19:47:36
Between December 2023 and July 2025, 18,000 businesses have closed and 253,800 registered jobs have been lost, according to the Centre for Argentine Political Economy (CEPA). Alongside the exchange rate freeze, which made Argentina the most expensive country in South America, Milei’s government – unlike Donald Trump’s – has reduced or scrapped tariffs, leaving heavily taxed local industries at a disadvantage against Chinese imports.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/26/do-populists-always-crash-the-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@haayman@todon.nl2025-12-18 04:43:42
This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-26 20:30:37
Donald Trump this week touted his administration’s dramatic cuts to the federal workforce,
as remaining workers steeled themselves for another potential government shutdown — and more possible cuts — in the new year.
“Big news for the USA!” Trump wrote in a post on his social media site, over a graph that showed plummeting federal employment.
The post cited jobs numbers from earlier this month showing federal employment at its lowest in more than a decade,
down 271,000…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-27 16:41:20
A study finds that foreign direct investment accounts for 98% of Vietnam's electronics exports, "signaling limited technology spillovers" to the local economy (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-26 12:30:33
It Is Trump's Casino Economy Now. You'll Probably Lose. (Kyla Scanlon/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/opinion/trump-economy-casino.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p10#a251026p10
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-26 20:05:16
For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called #probiv market
– a term derived from the verb
“to pierce” or
“to punch into a search bar”
– has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials,
traffic police,
bank employees and l
ow-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases.
While l…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-12-23 16:24:26
Surprise: Venezuelan economy recovering over 2025.
CEPAL: Venezuela lidera el crecimiento de Latinoamérica en 2025 – NODAL
https://www.nodal.am/2025/12/cepal-venezuela-lidera-el-crecimiento-de-latinoamerica-en-2025/
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social2025-12-24 12:28:50
cooling their heels in a shaky economy
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 13:57:27
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
The conference also has a cinema room, showing bitcoin based films. Not mine, but I'm here for "finding home" by avi burra. Who did q&a after.
A short Travelog about a visit a cypherpunk in Prague for BTC Prague. Which was a much bigger bitcoin conference.
Lots of shots of a beautiful European city, and brief interviews with the people there. Many at restaurants where meals are paid for with bitcoin.
I guess they have a circular economy there of some sort.
Conclusion seems to be that fixing the money is important but building community is even more importanter.
#bitfest #film #bitcoin
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-27 01:30:04
We distinguish "personal unfairness",
-- the view that one’s own economic situation is unfair,
from "social unfairness",
-- the view that the economic situation of others in society is unfair.
Uncertainties associated with the transition to a globalized knowledge economy heighten people’s feelings of personal unfairness
Feelings of personal unfairness increase support for the "populist right"
and feelings about social unfairn…
@scott@carfree.city2025-12-23 08:16:03
New open-access paper: Degrowth is popular in the US and UK!
The label "degrowth" is not, but the policy substance is. "Ecosocialism" or "well-being economy" were labels that got better reactions.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/<…
@yaxu@post.lurk.org2025-10-22 14:53:09
Burning 1000 tonnes of fossil carbon, or emitting 4000 tonnes of CO2, causes the premature death of a future person from effects of anthropogenic global warming.
It follows that for every hour that you fly, you typically steal from a future person:
- one day if you are seated in economy class
- 2 days in business class
- 4 days in first class
- 10-30 days in a private jet
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-20 14:25:46
IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B, vastly outperforming ad spend in media overall, set to grow 5.7% YoY (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creator-economy-ad-spend-37-billion-for-2025/
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-25 01:13:00
Pope Leo decries 'distorted economy' in first Christmas Mass – DW – 12/25/2025
https://www.dw.com/en/world-celebrates-christmas-as-2025-draws-to-a-close/live-75292667
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-25 20:25:24
Amid the Trump administration’s military escalations against Venezuela,
one Florida Republican is salivating at the prospect of a full-scale military invasion,
arguing that a U.S. military invasion would be “very good news for the American economy.”
“Venezuela, for those Americans who do not understand why we need to go in, basically [it’s] for three reasons,”
said Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), speaking with Fox’s David Asman.
Those three reasons, Salazar exp…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-10-07 01:16:08
Content warning: Aotearoa's economy 'not so bad'
Huh. Interesting assertion: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/575077/opinion-nicola-willis-is-right-the-economy-isn-t-as-bad-as-the-merchants-of-misery-claim
Then, at the end, I see who wrote it:…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-25 11:30:41
Sources: podcast companies like AudioBoom, Wave Sports, and Studio71 are discussing potential sales and investments, seeking to cash in on creator economy hype (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-24/…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-26 12:20:32
In Trump-Friendly Iowa, the President's Policies Have Hit Hard (Pooja Salhotra/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/politics/iowa-trump-economy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p8#a251026p8
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-24 17:00:34
Resources are depleted, crisis is imminent! Putin's war is draining Russia's economy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/24/resources-are-depleted-crisis-is.html
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-10-26 19:52:05
Another intriguing finding of the research, though, is that despite their economic costs, these leaders tend to be good at holding on to power, lasting on average eight years, compared with four for their more moderate equivalents.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/26/do-populists-always-crash-the-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-26 06:01:05
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-25 01:25:13
The ‘S&P 493’ reveals a very different U.S. economy
A few trillion-dollar companies are powering the market’s gains.
Here’s what’s happening to most other businesses in the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/s…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-23 16:15:36
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/22/the-exit-economy-black-women-labor-force-participation-inequality/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p36#a251123p36
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-05 20:02:44
🤑 Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe’s richest man
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/21/wealth-tax-would-be-deadly-for-french-economy-says-europe-richest-man-bernard-arn…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-24 17:31:14
“I love A.I.”
For Donald Trump, there is no risk, only reward, posed by the dawning and disruptive new age of computing.
Over the past year, the president and his top aides have fully embraced A.I.,
and showered its leading corporate backers with money and regulatory support,
as the administration looks to supercharge one of the primary areas of growth in an otherwise precarious U.S. economy.
That optimism was on display on Tuesday, after the federal government …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-16 18:55:52
The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/economy/us-eu-tech-penalties.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-24 10:40:42
It's boom times for Trump's economy. Especially if you're rich. (Sam Sutton/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/24/its-boom-times-for-trumps-economy-especially-if-youre-rich-00704816
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p7#a251224p7
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-10-26 19:51:25
A recent paper in the American Economic Review analysed the performance of 51 populist presidents and prime ministers, from 1900 to 2020. It found that on average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/26/do-populists-always-crash-the-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-07 17:59:16
SIMPLETON: Yes, this will crash the economy because wrong math = lost money
EXPERT: No, this won’t crash the economy because people screw up even without AI, business operations are already riddled with ridiculous errors, and human systems have grown resilient to pervasive local failure
WISE SAGE: Yes, this will crash the economy because the economy is currently propped up by gullible investors •believing• this BS is real actual magic, and if they find out it it sucks like normal, the bubble pops
From @…: https://social.coop/@eb/115328355039744280
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-19 03:44:42
WSJ editors rip Trump as 'Golden Age' nowhere in sight - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-economy-2674737389/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-22 17:30:57
Women Are Losing in Trump's Economy (Jessica Grose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/opinion/women-trump-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vU8.RcHn.ZamklpwJ2Bhc&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p76#a251022p76
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-25 12:05:47
China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as the world's manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI "dark factories" (Brian Spegele/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-robots-chin
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-10-26 19:50:24
Trump shares Milei’s love of chaos and showbiz but his approach does not fit straightforwardly into his Argentinian ally’s laissez-faire playbook. While Trump has cut taxes for the wealthy and slashed regulation in some sectors, his administration has also taken stakes in strategic firms and used trade policy as a political weapon – a muscular interventionism more familiar in Beijing than Washington.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/26/do-populists-always-crash-the-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-25 18:21:56
Society should learn to celebrate and capitalise on its
“massive cohort of healthy, active, older, creative adults”,
a leading population expert has said.
While pundits and pressure groups have raised concerns over falling fertility rates, highlighting the challenges for the economy and healthcare,
others are more upbeat, arguing the rise of the “silver economy” brings new opportunities for growth.
Prof Sarah Harper, director of the Oxford Institute of Populatio…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-11 22:09:41
Russia's exhausted economy: sanctions, oil refineries under attack, and labor shortages | Explainer: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/russias-exhausted-economy-sanctions-oil.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-25 05:55:58
India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/indi…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-22 11:05:51
Most Americans say U.S. on wrong track on economy, immigration and more: poll (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/poll-us-wrong-track-economy-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p11#a251022p11
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-24 19:25:45
How the US' annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-u-s-ec
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-23 15:35:57
Trump's Argentina beef deal angers America's struggling farmers: 'You're selling us out' (Samantha Delouya/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/economy/trump-argentina-beef-deal-farmer-impact
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p65#a251023p65
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-11 22:09:36
Putin is destroying the economy: Russia could be on the brink of default #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/putin-is-destroying-the-economy.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-19 19:55:58
After Shutdown, Labor Dept. Says Some Data Is Gone for Good (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/business/economy/labor-department-economy-data-october.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p110#a251119p110
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-16 18:35:54
The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify, if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/economy/us-eu-tech-penalties.html<…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-23 17:20:36
Treasury secretary says there won't be a recession in 2026 (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/treasury-secretary-bessent-us-wont-enter-recession-2026-economy-rcna245411
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p41#a251123p41
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-20 10:26:11
How AI is pressuring Poland's economy, Europe's top location for global business services, as companies lay off staff in Krakow, the country's hub for BPO jobs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-2…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 18:34:49
“More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989,” Page explained.
“More of that music is being done by artists themselves, meaning there’s even more demand for music production software.”
It’s true,
the rise in musicians goes hand-in-hand with the rise of music-making software and music-distributing platforms.
Now that making high-quality recordings is possible from the palm of your hand
— and sharing them i…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-16 01:20:44
Sources: the US has paused a tech trade deal with the UK, signed in September, over disagreements about the UK's digital regulations and food safety rules (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/business/economy/trump-uk-trade-deal-tariffs…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-22 20:36:08
Fed Lost Access to Private Jobs Data Ahead of Government Shutdown (Nick Timiraos/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/fed-lost-access-to-private-jobs-data-ahead-of-government-shutdown-95225bd4?st=X3jCUU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p118#a251022p118
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-19 16:13:29
Sen. Bernie Sanders said at a “No Kings” protest on Saturday that mega-billionaires have “hijacked” the economy,
slamming some of the wealthiest people in the nation.
“This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on earth who,
in their insatiable greed,
have hijacked our economy and our political system in order to enrich themselves at the expense of working families throughout this country,”
Sanders said in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
“I am talkin…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-19 13:46:00
Trump Is Running Out of Time to Remake the Economy Before the Midterms (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/trump-remake-economy-before-midterms
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p23#a251219p23
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-20 08:55:34
A look at how China gained control over global rare earth supply through state support, domestic industry consolidation, acquiring US companies, and more (Jon Emont/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/how-chin…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-19 18:20:59
As polls show low approval for Trump on the economy, will taking his economic agenda to voters help? (Oren Oppenheim/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/polls-show-low-approval-trump-economy-taking-economic/story?id=128428263
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p62#a251219p62
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-19 23:21:01
Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-voters-say-white-house-doing-more-harm-than-good-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p148#a251119p148
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-25 08:15:42
The 'S&P 493' reveals a very different U.S. economy (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYzOTYwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY1MzQyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjM5NjA0MDAsImp0aSI6IjEzNGE2MWQ5LWY2YWItNGMzOS05YzVhLWU0MDhmZGNjZjZmMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzExLzI0L3NwNTAwLXN0b2NrLW1hcmtldC10ZWNoLW52aWRpYS8ifQ.cmGRw_oh0OgrMqArv-NAE_48U7LCXF3i_aXmHqxDQmk&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p1#a251125p1
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-22 19:20:51
While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/boom-bubble-bust…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 04:44:10
Plenty of U.S. presidents have talked about freeing America from its dependence on foreign oil
and keeping foreign petrostates from messing with our economy.
That’s what “drill, baby, drill” was all about.
This is something different.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115597178628269355
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-19 06:51:02
'Execution was abysmal': Trump economy speech doesn't meet GOP hopes (Eli Stokols/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/18/execution-was-abysmal-trump-economy-speech-doesnt-meet-gop-hopes-00698967
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p4#a251219p4
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-16 18:43:55
Federal data belatedly released Tuesday shows that the
US unemployment rate
rose to the highest level in four years last month
as Donald Trump’s administration continues its assault on the government’s workforce
and American corporations lay off workers at a level not seen in decades.
The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November,
up from 4.4% in September,
according to the Labor Department report, whose release was delayed due to the recent governme…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-22 20:51:07
SAP reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to €9.08B, cloud revenue up 22% to €5.29B, below €5.33B est., and current cloud backlog up 23% to €18.84B (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/sap-cloud…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-22 01:45:31
The Trump Vibe Shift Is Dead (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/opinion/trump-economy-vibe-shift.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U8.A9db.1adqA43jTQD6&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251221/p59#a251221p59
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-22 20:12:49
The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled new proposals to ease regulations on AI and data privacy.
The EU has for years sought to rein in tech companies on various issues,
but is also attempting to balance this with the need to compete with tech firms in the United States and East Asia.
"Europe has not so far reaped the full benefits of the digital revolution,"
EU economy commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said.
"And we cannot afford to pay the …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-22 07:16:01
Non-profit Cyber Monitoring Centre estimates that the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack cost the UK economy at least £1.9B and affected over 5,000 UK organizations (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6f2923b3-2a4b-4c9b-9cde-eb5f0d5b9ce3
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-17 13:01:15
An A Economy, My A -- Trump made big boasts but he isn't delivering (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-a-economy-my-a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p17#a251217p17
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-17 18:05:53
Trump and Vance give the economy high marks -- the numbers say otherwise (Philip Bump/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-jobs-employment-jd-vance-a-plus-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p82#a251217p82
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-17 15:10:53
Americans are more dissatisfied with Trump's handling of the economy than ever, poll shows (Matt Loffman/PBS NewsHour)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/americans-are-more-dissatisfied-with-trumps-handling-of-the-economy-than-ever-poll-shows
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p40#a251217p40
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-20 13:31:07
Why Middle-Class Americans Say Life Is Unaffordable (Sabrina Tavernise/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/middle-class-us-economy-affordability.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p11#a251220p11
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-23 22:40:40
Bessent believes there won't be a recession in 2026 but says some sectors are challenged (Annie Nova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/bessent-economy-no-recession-2026.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p65#a251123p65
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-14 17:55:38
Stop criticizing Trump's bad economy. You're making him sad. (Rex Huppke/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/12/14/trump-economy-inflation-affordability-hoax/87725036007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p32#a251214p32