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Seeking additional barrels of oil in Venezuela or digging for rare earths in ice-covered Greenland makes no sense from an economic or security point of view. And yet U.S. President Donald Trump persists, even though the costs massively outweigh the benefits. In reality, naked resource grabs explain a lot about Trump’s dizzying foreign policy, perhaps even more so than other explanations that have been proposed. It seems Trump may have reached back even further in time for his guiding light than tariff-happy William McKinley and big-stick imperialist Theodore Roosevelt to the British and Dutch quasi-state mercantilist corporations that introduced much…
While the mean forecast is for around 2.2% growth in 2026 (see this post), the trimmed 20% band suggests some downside risks. Figure 1: GDP as reported (bold black), WSJ January mean (red), WSJ January median for 2026 (blue), 20% trimmed high/low band (gray lines), and Goldman Sachs 1/16 tracking (light blue square), all in bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR. Source: BEA, WSJ January survey, Goldman Sachs, and author’s calculations. That being said, the mean response to the probablity of recession in the next 12 months dropped from 33% in the October survey to 27% in the current. Fgure 2: Mean probability of…
Premier League8:00 PMJanuary 19, 2026Regular Season – 22Amex StadiumReferee: Paul Tierney, England Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Brighton World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Bournemouth World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Turn off spoiler to view match statistics1.16Expected goals (xG)1.35Passing474 (84%)Accurate passes194 (69%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 1 G Bart Verbruggen 6.5 24 D Ferdi Kadıoğlu 6.9 5 D Lewis Dunk (C) 7.0 6 D Jan Paul van Hecke 77′ Foul 90+1′ 7.9 34 D Joel Veltman 6.7 30…
The Los Angeles Lakers travel to Denver to face the Nuggets on Tuesday, January 20, at Ball Arena, with tip-off scheduled for 10:00 PM ET. Los Angeles enters at 25-16, riding a one-game winning streak, while Denver sits at 29-14 and is coming off a one-game losing streak. The Lakers will be without Austin Reaves […] The post Lakers visit Nuggets on Tuesday: full injury report appeared first on TalkBasket.net.
While you may think quakes are a western US problem, some of the largest temblors in US history have happened in the East.ELGIN, S.C. – A magnitude 2.2 earthquake, centered 19 miles northeast of Columbia, South Carolina, shook areas of the Palmetto State on Tuesday morning. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the tremors began around 6:33am.Magnitude 2.2. earthquake felt in South Carolina(FOX Weather) People in South Carolina reported feeling the shaking in nearby areas like Lugoff, Blythwood, Dentsville and Elgin. This is a developing story. Stick with FOX Weather for more updates.
All tools are on the table when it comes to getting the USA to back down from threats of tariffs and the takeover of Greenland. So says EU Commissioner for the Economy Valdis Dombrovskis. The statement comes on the way into the meeting of the countries in the Eurogroup on Monday in Brussels. “We have tools at our disposal. Right now nothing has been taken off the table,” says Dombrovskis. The EU has already prepared counter-tariffs of 93 billion euros on American goods in connection with the trade agreement this summer. Those tariffs can quickly be activated as a first…
At the end of last October, Joe Barnes, a British journalist, published astonishing figures in his article in The Telegraph: in merely two months, almost 100 thousand young Ukrainians, aged 18-22, had fled Ukraine via the Ukrainian-Polish border. Later, the Polish border guards called this figure a gross exaggeration, because it covered neither those who came back nor multiple border crossings. Indeed, there is a tendency among young people to leave Ukraine, including minors. The permission for young men, aged 18-22, to leave the country actually did provoke a wave of emigration, although it wasn’t on such a large scale.…
Morocco winger Brahim Diaz received no sympathy from AFCON specialist Herve Renard Former Morocco coach Herve Renard has accused Brahim Diaz of displaying a “lack of respect for an entire country” following his Panenka penalty miss in the dying seconds of the Africa Cup of Nations final on Sunday evening. Real Madrid winger Diaz had the chance to win the trophy and end Morocco’s 50-year wait to be crowned continental champions when he stood over the spot-kick in injury-time against Senegal, although that only tells half the story on a chaotic night in Rabat. Diaz had won the penalty after…
Strong lake-effect snow is taking aim at the Great Lakes region through midweek. Snowfall rates could reach 1-2 inches per hour in some areas, and travel impacts are likely at times, as visibility can drop quickly. Latest:Lake-effect snow is once again firing relentlessly, with hazardous lake-effect snowbands expected to persist through Wednesday as Arctic air continues to pour over the warmer Great Lakes.Areas around Buffalo and Watertown in upstate New York are well-known lake-effect hotspots and will be hit the hardest, where prolonged snowbands could be measured in feet.RELENTLESS SNOW BLANKETS MIDWEST, WESTERN NEW YORK AS LAKE-EFFECT MACHINE HAMMERS WEST…
President Donald Trump traveled to Michigan on Jan. 13 to address the Detroit Economic Club. Earlier in the day, the federal government announced that inflation — a major preoccupation for voters, and one of Trump’s key 2024 campaign issues — held steady at a 2.7% year-over-year rate. That’s slightly lower than the 2.9% in December 2024, the last full month under President Joe Biden, or the 3% in January 2025, a month shared by both presidents. But consumer sentiment has fallen on Trump’s watch, showing people feel increasingly negative about their economic position. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment index has…