The Price of Peace: A Conversation With Zach Carter
The life of John Maynard Keynes, and its relevance today
On March 25 I did a live event in New York with Zach Carter, author of a terrific life and times book about John Maynard Keynes. Here’s the video of the event:
Saying Trump's actions have a "plan" is sane washing. And tariffs don't raise prices? What happened to clothes washers when Trump was president and a tariff was put in place. The price went up. $200. Dryers were not tariffed but since they are usually sold in matching sets, manufacturers raised the price of dryers. When the tariff disappeared, the price only went down $70 on washing machines. Yes, China and perhaps other countries have wrecked the system since admission to the WTO. However, the previous administrations plan of targeted tariffs with an emphasis on employment and high-tech and transition to EVS was working quite well. How ironic that the red states that got billions of dollars of subsidies to build battery plants all voted for Trump. Let's see how they're feeling in a couple of months. By the way, Mussolini made the trains run on time and Hitler got everyone a car they could afford.. it's not just the economics
I am wondering if the goal for trump is debt peonage or debt bondage via crypto currency. As red states begin to lose their jobs, institutions fail from self sabotage, and currency becomes weak, the federal government would subsidize billionaires (picking winners and losers), to create manufacturing jobs and housing in red and purple states which pay in crypto currency. Thus preventing a maga rebellion from job loss, and moving them into debt bandage to the company store - owning their soul to the company store.