Incremental regress!
Incremental regress!
Gotta love to see the US failing to learn from its failed policies.
The United States has seen an epic factory boom, from early 2021 through 2022, which tripled construction spending for manufacturing facilities. Most of these factories are devoted to the electrification of our transportation networks, and to semiconductors. Further, the objective is to build these technologies domestically and thereby wrest control of these supply and production chains from China.
But all that manufacturing will require huge production of batteries, which in turn require graphite. China has monopolies on most of the refined and synthetic graphite that is used for such batteries, and in late 2023 announced strict export curbs on the metal. Graphite exports immediately collapsed over 90%, leaving North America and Europe scrambling for new sources.
The earliest domestic (US) production of new graphite will be in 2027, and in a best-case scenario will be about a fourth of anticipated US demand.
These realities leave China in a most advantageous position: they can either continue the graphite bans and produce all the batteries for the global market themselves, or use their monopolistic position in graphite to negotiate sharp reductions in tariff rates for other Chinese exports.
The US is still threatening Iran over its pending retaliation for “Israel” killing Haniyeh. The Biden regime might favor a ceasefire, but they can’t abandon the zionist project either.
Better red than dead
No, it’s not the poison that’s killing me. It’s that I haven’t taken enough!
Oversimplifying, an uptick in the unemployment trend means a recession is on the way.
Sahm Recession Indicator signals the start of a recession when the three-month moving average of the national unemployment rate (U3) rises by 0.50 percentage points or more relative to the minimum of the three-month averages from the previous 12 months.
But we’ve got futures on options on credit default swaps on arms manufacturers!
Too good to be true! But the real article is also good.
Wow, this is from 2014 no less.
I’m sure she thought there was no alternative. Fucked around and found out.
The US has been looking more and more like a snarling, wet chihuahua.
Or just gaslight them into thinking they don’t really need those things.
yewtu.be also has a progressive mobile app!
Yeah, I reported that shit.
I’m worried about this as well. Once the pressure is off, they can do whatever they want.
Deity tier