Tesla stock was at $144 a year ago and is at $253 today. 5 years ago it was at $47. With income at $0.12 per share it is not like any of those are even close to reality. However they are what needs to fall to kill the Elon.

They both are looking to maintain the status quo of wealth concentrating in the 1%.

Powell is doing that. Trump however is working hard to concentrating the wealth of the oligarchs closest to him, which make up a lot less then 1% of the population.

China is following the playbook of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and similar countries. The all used window guidance to quickly grow targeted industries, which actually worked very well. All of them are wealthy countries today. However that dependence on how good the window guidance is. They take on a lot of debt to invest and it only works as long as the investment is actually smart. If not the debt increases and that causes massive problems down the line. So it creates a bubble and when it pops it hurts badly. After decades of growth those bubbles probably are nasty.

Is Trump working on Making America Great Again, by turning it into a European colony again? A massive trade war with China, is obviously going to hurt both countries and Europe is the largest economy left.

Shrinkflation is when somebody sells you less of a product for the same price.

What you mean is stagflation. That when you have high inflation and a shrinking economy.

At any rate this is really great news for the environment.

Ukraine is working on anti air drones…

Putin needs Saudi Arabia to not start an oil price war, which Russia would loose.

The US support of Israel is making the US less popular around the world.

The problem is Hungary. Orban transferred ownership of the government share of the oil and gas company MOL to non profits. Those finance his own propaganda and support far right groups across Europe. Obviously the oil and gas comes cheaply from Russia.

So vetoes from Hungary all the way.

People are always born with the same age namely 0, but they do not all die at the same age. In fact getting older increases chances of death. Hence 2 babies per mother ends up in a pyramid too.

Even if you presume people all die at the same age, things will be stable. If say people all get childten at 30 and only work between 30-60 and then all die at 90. If we then assume 1 child per couple and everybody has a child at 30, we would get a stable dependency ratio of 2.5 dependents per worker. Obviously those numbers are not realistic. Btw that also is not a pyramid, but a trapezoid.

It is not an inverse pyramid though. The older humans are the more likely they die. So you always and up with a pyramide at the top, at least somewhat. With low birth rates a society has to care for fewer children. That results in an actually fairly stable ratio of working age population to dependents.

A shrinking population also means build infrastructure is already built. They just have to keep things running.

Power to control women and force them to have sex with you. A bit like rape, but less crude.

Hitler got lucky. He got into power when the great depression was ending. So the German economy grew fast. Then he very quickly took Poland and even more importantly France. Then during the war, the Nazis made sure to compensate Germans for bombing losses with looted goods.

Trump came into office and crashed the economy.

China uses debt differently. Local governments are not allowed to borrow money directly, so they use companies to borrow money for public works. The system is called local government financing vehicle(lgfv). They usually get land, which they sell or lease to get some money or to secure loans. It is usually understood that local governments would bail lgfv out. The issue with lgfv is that they owe more money then the GDP of China and it is secured with mostly real estate, which is somewhat on the edge of crashing. Chinese real estate is crazy overvalued, so popping that bubble can hurt China badly.

The difference is that China is in a trade war with the US. The US is in a trade war with the rest of the world.

Russia was not healthy when it applied shock therapy. The Soviet Union was collapsing, massive political instability in Moscow, all sorts of countries moving out of the Russian sphere of influence, the first Chechen war started and so forth. It was fairly obvious that big decision had to be made, but unfortunatly Russia choose poorly.

Urals was at $60 when Putin agreed to Minsk2. The Soviet Union broke at $30.

They tariffed uninhabited islands. Also not all trade between the US and Russia is banned.

Not really. Hitler mostly continued Weimar economic policy, while the economy was already improving, although still mostly at the bottom. He was lucky.

That is partof Trumps foreign policy. He tries to piss of other countries into drastic actiin, so he can use that to justify radical action.

Homeless are just lazy. They really should learn to do proper business tricks. When Elon needed lithium he couped Bolivia. So when homeless need housing…