Waleed Aly
You’re not buying enough stuff! That seems to be the message as best I can distil it from the latest round of news about a “retail recession”. This week it came from research by the NAB that found that retail sales have dropped to levels not seen since the recession of 1991. A couple of months ago, the same survey found it was at levels not seen since the global financial crisis. Seems we’re going backwards. And this at a time the Morrison government has just given us a tax cut in the expectation that we’d spend it.
Is Waleed Aly asking us to be Trumps? To spend like he did as a business-man and send 6 companies Bankrupt or does our economy to survive need to be shared more equitably by us.
Politicians remind us the country must 'live within its means', yet our economy relies on people doing the opposit.
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Some economists worry the world has passed “peak globalization.” But that could be good for the planet. By John […]
The challenge now is to preserve the political internationalism
necessary to address global problems like climate change and, at the
same time, retrofit the global economy so that it meets the needs of
people and the planet. This trick of separating the beneficial
internationalism from the dregs of economic globalization must also be
accomplished as quickly as possible.
I'm sorry, Trump, have you ever met yourself? Have you seen one of your own rallies? I mean, I'm old enough to remember you humping a flag pole, and pretending the entire country of Sweden is your friend, and Rep. Tlaib is the lunatic? And let's please not forget that these four Congresswomen now need extra protection from the Capitol police because of you and your attacks on them. If anything happens to Rep. Tlaib or the others, it will be because of your Nuremburg rallies, and the blood will be on your hands.
Lou Dobbs wants another Charlottesville.
At a Rhode Island ICE facility on Wednesday evening, an ICE employee used their SUV to ram through a group of peaceful protesters. At least five people were injured.
ABC News reports that the group protesting was "led by members of the "Never Again" movement, which likens undocumented immigrants being imprisoned to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust."
Does this mean all of ICE is anti-Semitic? You know that's how Trump would frame this incident, and Maggie Haberman would see it as a smart political move.
The Anti-Defamation League and many others denounce Trump's targeting of two congresswomen who wanted to visit Israel.
Pacific leaders slam Australia for putting politics ahead of their island neighbours after the Scott Morrison-led delegation undermined a consensus on a climate change communique.
