intense anti-incumbency backlash to inflation has been a global story for all the 2024 elections but you can't really see big electoral dividends from US outperformance on GDP/ investment/ employment/ wages
Yeah there's no "shoulda gone to Wisconsin" on this one. This is the result of an electorate that's highly sensitive to inflation and hates immigrants.
"Jeg anbefaler mine amerikanske venner å stemme Jill Stein" er kodeord for "jeg håper Trump vinner, men det tørr jeg ikke si høyt", for Putin-gjengen på ytterste venstre ø. Endelig har de kommet på en måte de kan pakke det inn på.
Det ikke er EUs skyld at krafta har havna på børs.
EU forsøker å etterligne og implementere den norske og senere nordiske markedsmodellen for kraft i Europa.
Som Norsk Hydro påpeker i sitt høringssvar til EØS-utredningen:
joe biden kept pressing the inflation button
and kamala tried to stop him. she told him “joe what are you doing?!? you can’t raise prices, that will hurt people!” but he kept pressing the button anyways
Which do you think is more likely to produce a plethora of cheap consumer goods, like 89-cent burritos: unconstrained capitalism, or a society with worker protections and powerful labor organizations?