security should be built on domestic strength, specifically by securing our power grid and reducing global oil dependence. We have the technology, tools, solar, wind, advanced battery storage, nuclear power to make this happen.
We have the wrong people in place to make this happen.
> “The main message is that we’re going to get the energy transition forced on us in a very painful way that’s going to happen very quickly.
This forcing function will occur regardless of who is in power. The world (China, mostly) produces enough EVs, solar, and batteries to make it happen, it’s just a matter of economics and time.
The people in charge today are temporary, the investments made in clean tech today will last decades.
Matter for what? IIRC, the USD is over-valued by about 10% due to being a world reserve currency.
End USD dollar dominance, and you get most of Trump's baseline tariffs forever, except on top of rather than instead of whatever extra tariffs Washington puts on imports and you can't undo them.
My first thought was to wonder about the inflationary impact of all the USD outside the USA ending up back in the USA, but then I remembered how macroeconomics has way too many feedback loops (and first-order surprises because of those feedback loops) for me to guess the full impact, especially given this isn't my field.
You sound like a Chinese. America should be doing the same, except we elected Trump who decided doubling down on oil and Middle East problems was a better way to move forward to 1950.
“There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the semiquincentennial,”
It's fascist propaganda, aggrandizing the Great Leader. Don't worry about it, though. American dollars won't be good for anything more than burning before long.
Pretty much yeah - it shares the same chip as the iPhone so you're not wrong. Biggest difference is it runs desktop apps (when it feels like it) and has a keyboard, but the DNA is the same.
This is going to be a longer war. Iran is slowly burning up the Israeli missile defense stockpiles when one Iranian drone receives 10 missiles fired in defense. When the stockpiles are gone, then the Iranian counter-attack will begin in earnest
Only the dumbest people think that a spontaneous uprising occurs during a bombing campaign. And the new leaders will be as hardline as the old
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