Naturally, Trump’s massive tariffs on Chinese-produced goods is aimed at hurting China and helping the US. However, aside from the basic logic of the tariffs being in serious question, there are typically side effects to all of our actions that we didn’t initially consider, and even more so in complicated, … [continued]
Donald Trump has been talking about the US putting tariffs on allies for decades, since at least the 1980s. He’s been obsessed with this topic in recent years, but it’s been a top political target for him for about half of his life. He jacked up tariffs on some countries … [continued]
According to Elon Musk, a top economic advisor and key “tariff whisperer” of Donald Trump, who he helped to elect, is “dumber than a sack of bricks.” A little bit of a rift has surfaced between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Donald Trump tariff leader Peter Navarro, aka Ron Vara … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a massive trade war “battle map” with toy tanks and arrows, but it’s laid out on a child’s playmat
In 2025, amid a sea of tariffs, tweets, economic brinksmanship, and cries of “Drill, baby, drill,” one man’s name keeps surfacing as the supposed brains behind the Trump administration’s latest moves: Stephen Miran. He’s a Harvard-trained economist, former Treasury official, and newly appointed Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a cracked American flag made of silicon wafers, fiber optic cables, and EV batteries—all splintering at the rare earth seams
In April 2025, while most of the world was clutching pearls over trade war tit-for-tat tariffs, China calmly walked over to the supply chain and yanked out a handful of critical bolts. The bolts are made of dysprosium, terbium, tungsten, indium and yttrium—the elements that don’t make headlines but without … [continued]
The new Lucid Gravity luxury SUV goes head-to-head with Tesla, as the first (or second) non-Tesla production vehicle sold with a built-in NACS charging port.
The US firm Lucid Group aims to ramp up EV sales in the US and Saudi Arabia, too, offering up more competition for Tesla in the luxury market.
Caving in to Trump’s demands to recognise US car standards as equivalent to Europe would be a grave error. But it’s part of a pattern One of Donald Trump’s many obsessions is that Americans buy more cars from Europe than the other way round. To punish European carmakers the US … [continued]
Trump’s misbegotten trade war against Canada notwithstanding, leading hydrogen stakeholders continue to move forward with green hydrogen projects.
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of the flaming boomerang painted with the American flag, soaring back toward economic and environmental destruction.
The first Trump trade war was a disaster for US cleantech, and it looks like 2025 is setting up to be an encore performance. Between 2018 and 2020, Trump’s tariffs on solar panels cost the US an estimated 10.5 GW of lost solar capacity, delaying the transition to clean energy … [continued]
A few days ago, CNBC ran a story about GM’s confidence in the face of the threat of tariffs on Mexico and Canada, countries where U.S. domestic automakers have a sizable footprint. If the numbers are to be believed, GM is in a better position to weather tariffs than Ford … [continued]
