#CNBC #news #video with Brad Setser, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, saying, “If #China really wanted to play nasty, they could say, ‘We’re going to limit exports of iPhones.’” The video is pure talking-head and stock-footage filler crap. #USA #politics #tariffs
#news on #AfD: “#Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution [Verfassungsschutz]. “The ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order,” the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement.” I think that’s a nice capsule summary of what the problem was with the Nazis. It wasn’t their use of ancient Hindu religious symbols or their industrial policy; it’s that they were incompatible with the free democratic order because of the ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party. #politics
#news #video from #Deutsche-Welle citing the University of Gothenburg “V-Dem Democracy Report 2025” saying 72% of the world lives in autocracies, with only 24 remaining liberal democracies.
#news #video by Sal #Mercogliano, who specializes in maritime shipping, saying that he thinks next week’s 35% drop in shipping at the port of LA (first full week of May) is real and indicative of a broader trend of less container ships arriving in #USA, which will hit the East Coast 2–4 weeks later. He recommends the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics website. #tariffs