Punshhh

That reminds me of Donald Trump’s map. You’re not Russian are you? That’s 19th century nonsense. At the time it was formulated the greatest nation was...

Yes, the moves towards greater cooperation on defence are promising. It’s more in terms of trade that I’m worried about the approach of the U.K. gover...

I don’t disagree with what you suggest. Rather I’m thinking of how to arrest the drift towards autocracy, isolationism, fascism, war mongering. Failed...

For the U.S. to remain relevant on the world stage she needs to work with China and Europe to reach stability and pragmatism and restore the global or...

This fixation with Russia seems a bit outdated. She really is a basket case, a pariah state and run by a tinpot dictator. She is going to become an ir...

Is that Godzilla in your bio pic? Trump is like King Kong rattling his cage, looking for weakness. Remember in the movie, there’s a time when he rattl...

It looks like Israel is the bogeyman here. As for the blob, every state has a blob. The words state and blob could be interchangeable and still be des...

Yes and will the split between the U.K. and the EU widen. The EU will likely side with China, the U.K. looks to be siding with the U.S.(although Starm...

Surprise surprise. Teslas next I suppose. Had to laugh; The funny thing about this joke is that it is true;

NOS is conflating prediction with the identification of risks, or a trajectory. So that the person identifying the risk can be accused of failing to p...

Yes, although the U.S. recession will reduce the production of greenhouse gases. Also U.S. military production is likely to go down a similar amount t...

There is an agreement, the Paris Agreement. A lot is being done, it just happens to be a bit on the late side. Unfortunately, before we start to feel ...

It occurred to me that following the sub prime financial crisis. The right has seen the writing on the wall and that the people will want/require/dema...

I heard a good analogy today. I could claim that my barber is taking advantage of me. He takes my money every time but doesn’t pay me anything ever. T...

I heard on live U.K. radio yesterday, a Trump guy say that he had just invested $60million in the stock market and was confident the market would boun...

Yes liquidity, I hadn’t got as far as that. I’m not an economist.

Bravo. I’ve just heard a respected economist explaining how if the bond markets run away the federal reserve will have no choice but to raise interest...

Yes, exactly. China has already won the economic war. As an aside, I saw an old clip of an interview with Trump in 2003, yesterday. Trump said that Ch...

I don’t deny that people are very worried. The markets haven’t reacted as much as I was expecting, considering the size of the tariffs. It could be di...

It’s true that what the U.S. takes from China in trade is 16% of the 16%. But this obscures the real impact of what Trump is doing here. He’s pushing ...

Perhaps philosophy can provide an answer. It will only be factual when a humanoid population is found which has secured its long term survival, beyond...

BLACK MONDAY, IS TO BE RENAMED ORANGE MONDAY!

But surely the issue here is when does the being move out of the brain and into the silicon and is the being still human, or is the human lost as the ...

And the answer is?

There is the philosophical issue of whether humanity has it in itself to survive. We do in theory, but will we act on that and be successful. Or do we...

But won’t there come a point where it will become cost effective to send out swarms of drones to take out the hordes. Some evil genius will come up wi...

I think the survivors would likely be those who happen to be in a favourable micro climate, like a high valley in the Himalaya. Or a mountainous Islan...

That poster is a troll, or a bot. That’s what the issue is. I gave up replying, it just sets your head spinning.

Is this a bot?

In principle yes, perhaps this is what some of these voters thought when they voted for him. But this isn’t what they got, they got a vindictive trade...

Millions if not billions of tons of methane. This is one of the tipping points, it’s already well under way.

Agree to disagree will just spin you around in circles until you’re dizzy.

I’m only focussing on this issue. The gaslighting is that Trump and his associates assured voters that their policy is economically coherent and that ...

No, (although it might be a maybe), I’m observing an economic malaise in Western countries and suggesting a remedy, based on a removal of the cause.

Even if Trump does “negotiate” away some of the tariffs, or row back due to worries about a crash. It’s too late for their credibility. It’s shot, the...

Won’t be long now then. I wonder if he can outlive a lettuce, which the UK’s last PM but one failed to do (when she implemented neo-con policy).

Only a few voted for this. Most voted for populist promises.This is more a failure democracy, a breakdown in the dissemination of sound political narr...

Yes, in an ideal world, but it is not an ideal world. Anyway I was talking about the imbalance that has produced the poor economic circumstances in We...

I think you’ve hit the nub of the issue here. All the woes (well most of them) of the U.S. economy, along with the EU and most Western countries are a...

Or it’s a dumpster fire. I don’t know enough about US politics to comment on the left right issue. I can read the runes though and to introduce an eco...

It must have slipped your mind that Russia and Iran are basket cases and China does not do this pariah state nonsense. She will likely do a deal with ...

It takes minutes to impose tariffs, but 5 to 10 years to build a factory. Also why would a manufacturer build that factory when in 4 years Trump will ...

Now presumably he will do deals. Deals in which he will extract something from other countries in return for a reduction in tariffs. But what can thes...

Thanks for the correction, liberation day, I’ve put it right now.

Oh and I’m the most powerful person on the planet and you all have to dance to my tune.

Will Trump carry through his tariff war (today is Trump’s liberation Day), or will he chicken out? Is it just posturing to do deals, or is it all abou...

The fog of war. Imagine the chaos on the Russian side.

This will be a conservative estimate(which one would expect with an economic assessment), it won’t include shocks and breakdowns in societies, or unex...

— Punshhh I think you are somewhat lacking in powers of imagination. Such states tend to use mass starvation rather than active genocide, it’s less ob...

Yes, but the problem is an economic cliff edge, or an overnight change of circumstances. For industry to adapt to the new circumstances takes years, w...