Artificial Growth

Headline GDP and equity markets are propped up by massive AI-related capital spending. Remove this single speculative sector and the economy would already be in recession.

Bubble Risk

The AI boom mirrors the dot-com and housing bubbles—apparent growth masking structural weakness.

Exploding Debt

National debt is rising faster than at any point in U.S. history, with repeated trillion-dollar surges and no productivity payoff.

World Economics

Trump’s Trade War Shows Economic Ignorance—and We Will Pay the Price

It’s honestly hard to watch this and understand how any of his followers are falling for what has to be the worst attempt at “Don the Con” yet. I can’t find a single credible economist who agrees with Trump on this. Eliminating immigration and launching a trade war at the same time isn’t strategy — it’s economic suicide. It’s like going nuclear on your own economy. I’d say someone needs to take the “codes” out of his hands — but it’s too late. He’s already launched them.

Trump’s Second Term, Year One: Forecast Confirmed, Damage Accelerated

Chronological Articles:

• Protectionism 101: Trump Economics
• Trumpenomics: How Tariffs, Policy Cuts, and Labor Shortages Are Devastating American Farmers
• The Devastating Impact of Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs
• Tariffs: The Most Regressive Tax That Hurts the Economy Without Reducing the Deficit
• World Economics 101: The United States and Global Trade Dynamics
• It’s the Service, Stupid: Understanding the Real U.S. Economy
• The Lies Behind Trump’s Terror Economics
• A Storm Brewing in Global Trade
• The Economic and Diplomatic Consequences of Trump’s Tariff Expansion
• The Hidden Costs of Short-Term Gains: Inflation, Tariffs, and Fiscal Recklessness
• How Tariffs on Guitars and Pianos Could Impact the Next Generation of Musicians
• Trump’s Sector-Specific Tariffs
• Liberation (From Your Money) Day: Largest Tax Increase in History
• Tariff Theater: Trump’s Economic War on the World — Including Penguins
• Trade War!
  On April 2, President Trump unilaterally declared a trade war against the rest of the world, imposing protectionist tariffs on 180 countries — calling it “Liberation Day.” This action was taken without congressional approval and in direct violation of the Constitution.
• Credit War!
• April 10 State of the Economic Union: Still Horrible
• What’s the Tariff Rate? — The Chaos and Confusion Surrounding Tariffs
• When Hypothesis Becomes Theory: Trump’s Trade War Has Triggered a Global Credit War
• Federal Court Rebukes Trump’s Tariff Plan as an “Unprecedented” Executive Overreach
• Trump’s Steel Tariff Déjà Vu: Doubling Down on Economic Damage
• The Math Behind Sequential Tariffs
  These examples demonstrate how sequential tariffs can significantly inflate the final cost of imported goods—sometimes more than doubling or tripling the original price.
• “Big Ugly Bill” Risks Climate, Economic, and Infrastructure Collapse
• The “Big and Brutally Ugly Bill” : Many Voters Don’t Even Realize
• Fiscal Policy Chaos: How America’s Current Path Accelerates Economic Collapse
• Trump’s Tariffs Are Crushing U.S. Soy Farmers While Brazil Gains
• 100% TACO: Trump’s Reckless Tariff on Life-Saving Medicines
• Tariff Truths: How Trump’s Trade War Is Taxing American Families and Businesses
• Powell’s QE Pivot: The Fed’s Dangerous Return to Easy Money
• Creative Destruction: Endogenous Growth Theory Explains Today’s AI Stock Market Bubble
• Déjà Vu Economics: How Trump’s Deregulation and Tariff Policies Mirror the Road to the Great Depression
• Cracks in the Foundation: Rising Bankruptcies and Regional Bank Weakness Rattle Wall Street
• Trump’s “Great Betrayal”: The Worst Trade Deal in U.S. History and the Accelerated March Toward Collapse
• The Real “Fact” About Immigration: Trump’s Lie vs. America’s Reality
• Trump’s Record 2025