Recent content by Altair

I'm very confused. Spending billions to build infrastructure that doesnt currently exist but would get a fair bit of use is too expensive for some (HSR), but spending billions to build infrastructure that is redundant and will likely not be used except in the most extreme of circumstances is...

Ukraine should say no. USA will get the tech, Ukraine will get nothing from America.

Now now... How were we all to know that this guy would do all the things he said he was going to do?

That's easy. Trump and family have traded 700m in stocks this year. All of congress traded 650m. Literally using the office to enrich himself and his family more than every member of congress, who we all know to be ridiculously corrupt.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/treasurys-yields-inflation-traders-fed-interest-rates.html 2007....2007....why do I feel like something happened around then...

Rubio or Vance take the loss in 2028, american public sours on the dems because of "reasons" and forget all about Trump and MAGA and Eric wins in 2032 and its the same stupidity all over again. From a Canadian context, don't take the Dems winning as anything but a temporary interlude. Plan for...

Because the Dems will get a veto proof majority?

Because trump has been going through congress to do most of his actions?

I still dont see why we should care.

I don't get it. Are we supposed to be upset?

Yeah, most world leaders dont want to double down on failure And here they have two very unlileable scapegoats. They run out of fuel, they blame america and trump. If they are trunp friendly, they blame Iran. If they are more neutral, they blame both. Doesnt solve the problem, but it...

I think Peter Zeihan, for what he is worth, is saying come fall the world physically does not have enough oil in circulation to meet demand, and the markets have no idea how to price that. Going to be fun.

If China buys him a plane Taiwan is as good as dead.

600 pages of appeals to emotion. Yay. I'll leave @ytz to it, this thread stopped being interesting a long time ago.

Really? Wow.