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  • Exportia is exporting for Importia's funny numbers, not just any country's funny numbers. There is a hierarchy on which countries' funny numbers are most desirable, and third-world countries are in the lowest tier. If Exportia decides to accept third world numbers at a rate which the people in the third world can afford to buy, then yes their workers in the export sector will stay employed and third world gets real goods and services with the Exportia's Central Bank accumulating numbers of the third world countries.

  • Assuming Russia won't pay which is pretty much a given and Russia's reserves can't be used to repay, Ukraine will be on hook for billions of Euros of loans which it can't pay even at zero interest since its a foreign currency loan far exceeding its capacity.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    The World Bank Miracle: How to Show Rising Poverty as Declining

    peoplesdemocracy.in /2025/1221_pd/world-bank-miracle-how-show-rising-poverty-declining
  • He do be

    looking though.

  • I love how they 'forget' that EU basically did a smaller version of 1990s Russian shock therapy to Greece.

    Edit : left axis on the graph is billions, not millions

  • 160% is ridiculous, they should taper up. unfortunately, they have a very real USD shortage and subsidized fuel does create excess demand. by cutting subsidies they are compressing imports and lowering purchasing power.

    is this good? no, but they have limited choices regardless of gov. but given the neoliberal regime, workers will be screwed over, capitalists will make money and economy doesn't improve much.

    loosening the exchange rate regime.

    i don't think this is necessarily bad, fixed (heavily managed) exchange rate results in excess imports, capital controls can limit it but unless its really tight there will be wasteful leakages, you are basically subsidizing non-essential imports with a fixed rate regime. with the economy having a current/trade deficit, they are forced to borrow from abroad (likely in foreign currencies) to maintain the fixed rate.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Trump’s “best is yet to come” and the data reality are diverging – for the worse!

    billmitchell.org /blog/
  • Yeah I don't know what Taiwan has to do with the comm. Random stupid article completely irrelevant to it, then they blame those who don't agree.

    Taiwan’s story is the mirror image. Twenty-three million people built a world-class economy and a resilient democracy by pairing technological excellence with open debate and free exchange.

    Literally a dictatorship not that long ago.

  • i do not know if you get notices for Adobe but windscribe free allows torrenting

    edit: wtf this site doesnt allow direct links? what was even the point of moving away from reddit then?

  • At least they're acknowledging there is a problem even if there is no proper solution. That's more than what many Global South countries are doing.

    One thing to note: the piece links domestic demand with supply-side reform, arguing that higher-quality, more self-reliant supply must not only meet existing demand but also actively create new demand, etc.

    Says "Law" mention

  • Blame Trump, that's what they've been doing. "Ukraine was going to build its own weapons but because of Trump they'll have to sign a deal with Russia"

  • India will soon be getting rid of its rural job guarantee, replacing it with a shittier version. It was passed during the liberal-left alliance in 2005, the liberals were pressured into it by the left parties in the coalition.

    Now, the right is getting rid of it. This comes after they weakened the Indian labor laws to make it easier to fire workers, in line with recommendations from international capitalists and the IMF. I believe their goal is to reduce unit labor costs in wake of Trump tariffs and reduction in world demand. The third world is stuck in beggar-thy-neighbor spiral.

  • what the fuck

  • After what happened with Grok, one would think they would ask such questions before launching it.

  • I don't think it's just AI that's the problem, the U.S. can't build shit because everything is done on narrow $-cost lens.

  • The state Gov has always flipped back and forth between Liberals (UDF) and the Left (LDF), In 2021 Elections the LDF secured atypical second term (LDF will be the first Gov to complete two full terms). Recent worry has been about NDA (BJP basically) gaining foothold.

  • Liberals and the right won the municipal elections in Kerala today.

    In my opinion, it was a victory of culture wars over material issues. Focusing on the kind of corruption that doesn't affect regular people in any way and with BJP doing religious polarization. Concerningly, the BJP won a Municipal corporation for the first time (afaik).

    It doesn't bode well for the state Gov elections to be held next year. BJP and the liberals have no solution for any material issues of course, and the Left has done a better job on that front

    . But better isn't enough when the liberals and the right don't have to focus on material issues, or provide any solution to existing material issues. The BJP Central Gov will strangle Liberals fiscally just like they are doing to the Left currently, if they win the 2026 elections. On top of this, Liberals in Kerala have historically been corrupt being controlled by the bourgeoisie, so their Gov will be shit in general. It provides an avenue for culture war 'issues' to be promoted by the BJP.

  • Didn't they raise regressive taxes?

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    British Labour’s obsession with fiscal rules is untenable and ignores the reality of the situation

    billmitchell.org /blog/
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    Aint no way

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Apropos “Western Civilisation”

    peoplesdemocracy.in /2025/1130_pd/apropos-%E2%80%9Cwestern-civilisation%E2%80%9D
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Even with Infinite Time, We Can’t Run Out of QR Codes

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    Repurposed a Nazi Factory Site to Make TNT to Drop on Gaza

    www.dropsitenews.com /p/polish-company-nitro-chem-tnt-us-mk-80-israel-gaza-nazis
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Indonesia: The Burn Method

    www.northsouthnotes.org /p/the-burn-method
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Upper East Side Moms Are Melting Down Over Mamdani

    www.thecut.com /article/moms-of-the-upper-east-side-facebook-meltdown-mamdani.html
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    Heaven and Hell AKA Super Hyper Can Can

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    This is America but it's actually Doraemon

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    Peent Peent

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    Mao's 'propaganda'

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Argentina entering the usual doom loop that austerity inevitably creates

    billmitchell.org /blog/
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    How Modi and RSS Are Fuelling Nepal’s Constitution Crisis

    frontline.thehindu.com /world-affairs/nepal-constitution-crisis-army-rss-modi-democracy-sushila-karki-genz-protest/article70096381.ece
  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    "We should replace oxygen with swag."

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    No, the Fed Is NOT Independent—It Is a Creature of Congress

    www.levyinstitute.org /publications/fed-a-creature-of-congress/
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    Who must go?

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    Sharaa says agreement with Moscow enabled swift fall of Assad

    thecradle.co /articles-id/33140
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    Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Suggests Children Should Watch Public Executions

    www.newsweek.com /charlie-kirk-death-penalty-public-executions-1873073