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  1. Bobbyhah says:

    The levies are also likely to reduce America’s economic output as has happened before. A 2020 study based on data from 151 countries including the US between 1963-2014 found that tariffs have “persistent adverse effects on the size of the pie” or the gross domestic product of the country imposing them. kraken зеркало There are a number of possible explanations for this. One is that when tariffs are low or non-existent the country in question can focus on the kind of economic activities where it has an edge and export those goods and services Gimber told CNN. https://kra34g.cc kra34 cc “If you raise tariffs you’re not going to see that same level of specialization” he said noting that the result would be lower labor productivity. “The labor could be better used elsewhere in the economy in areas where you have a greater competitive advantage.” Another reason output falls when tariffs are raised lies in the higher cost of imported inputs wrote the authors of the 2020 study most of them International Monetary Fund economists. Fatas at INSEAD suggested the same reason providing an example: “So I’m a worker and work in a factory. To produce what we produce we need to import microchips from Taiwan. Those things are more expensive. Together me and the company we create less value per hour worked.” Yet another way tariff hikes can hurt the economy is by disrupting the status quo and fueling uncertainty over the future levels of import taxes. That lack of clarity is particularly acute this year given the erratic nature of Trump’s trade policy. Surveys by the National Federation of Independent Business in the US suggest the uncertainty is already weighing on American companies’ willingness to invest. The share of small businesses planning a capital outlay within the next six months hit its lowest level in April since at least April 2020 when Covid was sweeping the globe. “The economy will continue to stumble along until the major sources of uncertainty including over tariffs are resolved. It’s hard to steer a ship in the fog” the federation said. Whichever forces may be at work the IMF to cite just one example thinks higher US tariffs will lower the country’s productivity and output.

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  3. AdolphBania says:

    Colin Goodson knows more about energy than most people. The tall bearded Mainer is an engineer on an offshore oil drilling ship in the Gulf of Mexico. But when it came time for him to build a home in Southern Maine Goodson largely bypassed fossil fuels. трип скан The house he built is entirely off the grid powered from rooftop solar and batteries that convert the sun’s energy to electricity. Electrons power much of his two-story home; it is heated and cooled with heat pumps and Goodson and his wife cook meals on an induction range. Incredibly well-insulated the entire home is heated by a small wood stove. https://tripscan.info трипскан вход Goodson loves his new house even though it has raised the eyebrows of his drilling ship colleagues. “All the guys at work think I’m crazy” Goodson said during a recent tour of his home. “They think I’m living in a shack out in the woods somewhere and I go outside to use the toilet but that’s clearly not the case.” The house built by New Hampshire company Unity Homes is a far cry from a shack. Modern and spacious it has running water and three bathrooms. Despite also having initial concerns about her husband’s off-the-grid aspirations Katie Goodson is a convert as well – especially after the lights stayed on during an intense storm that knocked their neighbors’ electricity out. “I would never go back” she told CNN. “When I tell co-workers or neighbors that we live off-grid and they see the house they’re always like ‘Whoa this isn’t what I was expecting’ It’s really fun surprising people; I live a totally normal life.” The Goodsons are part of a small but growing number of homeowners who are choosing to build energy-efficient “panelized” homes that are pre-made in a factory. The homes are better for the climate and although they have a high upfront cost several homeowners say their energy savings quality of life and overall cost of living has greatly improved since moving in.

  4. SamuelVet says:

    More than 200 firefighters are struggling to tackle an out-of-control wildfire on Crete — Greece’s largest island and a tourist hotspot — as authorities order mass evacuations. трипскан вход The fire broke out Wednesday afternoon near Ierapetra a town on the island’s southeast coast amid unusually high temperatures 3 to 5 degrees Celsius 5.4 to 9 Fahrenheit above average and gale-force winds of around 50 miles an hour. The conditions are creating “new outbreaks making firefighting work very difficult” the Fire Department’s press spokesperson Chief Vasilios Vathrakoyannis said in a statement Thursday. https://tripscan.live tripscan More than 230 firefighters along with 46 vehicles and 10 helicopters have been deployed to fight the blaze according to fire officials. The flames have spread rapidly reaching homes as well as hotels and other tourist accommodations. Authorities asked residents of four settlements to evacuate and move toward Ierapetra. About 1500 people have been evacuated so far according to the Greek public broadcaster ERT. The Ierapetra municipality has converted an indoor training center facility into a makeshift camp where hundreds of tourists and residents who abandoned their homes spent the night Wednesday. The police medical services and the coast guard have all been called to the area. “We are entering the third and most difficult month of the fire season” Vathrakoyannis said. July is typically the hottest month in Greece and is often accompanied by strong winds. “These conditions favor the spread of fires and increase their danger” he said. Wildfires have ripped through other European countries this week as the continent endures a brutal heat wave. Tens of thousands were evacuated in Turkey as blazes ripped through the western Izmir and Manisa provinces and southern Hatay province damaging nearly 200 homes. Blazes also broke out in France and in Spain where two people died. Europe experiences wildfires every year but they are becoming more intense and frequent due to human-caused climate change which fuels heat and drought both helping set the stage for fierce destructive fires.

  5. Anthonybed says:

    Emily Mazreku director of marketing and communications at Breakthrough T1D lives with type 1 diabetes and worked with Mattel to design the doll. kraken ссылка Barbie’s phone app displays a snapshot of her actual blood sugar readings from one day during the design process. Barbie’s blood glucose reading is 130 milligrams of sugar per deciliter of blood which is in the normal range. Most people with diabetes try to keep their blood sugar between 70 and 180 mg/dl.Her continuous glucose monitor has a graph that shows the highs and lows that can happen during the day. The blue polka dots are nods to the colors and symbols for diabetes awareness. https://kra34tt.cc kra35 at Mazreku spent almost two years holding focus groups to get feedback about the features of the doll and to make sure it was representing the entire type 1 diabetes community. “Mattel approached us and they wanted this to be a part of their Fashionista line” Mazreku said. “And we jumped on that opportunity right away.” The line has dolls with more than 175 different looks including a variety of skin tones eye and hair colors. It includes a Barbie with behind-the-ear hearing aids a blind doll who uses a cane and another with a prosthetic leg. There’s also a doll with vitiligo a condition in which skin loses its pigment and becomes splotchy. “We know that increasing the number of people who can see themselves in Barbie continues to resonate” said Devin Duff a spokesperson for Mattel in an email to CNN. The company said the blind Barbie and a doll with Down syndrome were among the most popular Fashionista dolls globally in 2024. The company launched its first doll with a disability — a friend for Barbie called Share-a-smile Becky who used a wheelchair — in 1997. Customers noted at the time that Becky’s wheelchair couldn’t fit through the doors of the Barbie Dream House a situation many people with disabilities encounter in real life.

  6. GeorgeBrern says:

    Rescuers are hailing as a “four-legged hero” a furry Chihuahua whose pacing atop an Alpine rock helped a helicopter crew find its owner who had fallen into a crevasse on a Swiss glacier nearby. tripskan The man who was not identified was exploring the Fee Glacier in southern Switzerland on Friday when he broke through a snow bridge and fell nearly 8 meters about 26 feet according to Air Zermatt a rescue training and transport company. Equipped with a walkie-talkie the man connected with a person nearby who relayed the accident to emergency services. But the exact location was unknown. After about a half-hour search the pacing pooch caught the eye of a rescue team member. https://tripscan.biz tripskan As the crew zeroed on the Chihuahua the hole the man fell into became more visible. Rescuers rappelled down rescued the man and flew him and his canine companion to a hospital. “Imagine if the dog wasn’t there” Air Zermatt spokesman Bruno Kalbermatten said by phone. “I have no idea what would happen to this guy. I think he wouldn’t survive this fall into the crevasse.” On its website the company was effusive: “The dog is a four-legged hero who may have saved his master’s life in a life-threatening situation.”

  7. Spencerjar says:

    Elon Musk stood next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday but the physical proximity belied a growing philosophical divide between two of the worlds most powerful men resulting in the tech moguls abrupt announcement that he is departing Washington — without having achieved his goal of decimating the federal government. kra35 cc Trump took a more charitable view of Musks tenure during a sprawling news conference in which he also declined to rule out pardoning Sean Diddy Combs who is on trial on charges of sex trafficking and other alleged crimes; said he dislikes the concept of former first lady Jill Biden being forced to testify before Congress about her husbands mental fitness; and predicted again that Iran is on the cusp of making a deal that would suspend its pursuit of nuclear weapons. kra35 at In a battle of plutocrats against populists Bannon a longtime advocate for reducing the size and scope of government found Musks methods and policy preferences to be sharply at odds with those of the MAGA movement. So ultimately did Musk who broke with Trump repeatedly on agenda items as narrow as limiting visas for foreign workers and as broad as Trumps signature big beautiful budget bill — which Musk belittled for threatening to add trillions of dollars to the national debt. “I was like disappointed to see the massive spending bill frankly which increases the budget deficit not just decrease it and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing Musk said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning which will air this weekend. kra35 cc I love the gold on the ceiling he said. Musk has argued that inertia throttled his efforts to reduce government spending — a conclusion that raises questions about whether he was naive about the challenge of the mission he undertook. “The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized” he told The Washington Post this week. “I thought there were problems but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C. to say the least.” On Friday he drew an implicit parallel between American government and the Nazi regime that committed a genocide invoking the banality of evil that Hannah Arendt used to describe the atrocities in Germany. kra35.cc https://kra—33–at.ru

  8. Rosariobof says:

    The latest Barbie slays in a chic blue polka-dot crop top ruffled miniskirt chunky heels and an insulin pump. She is the brand’s first doll with type 1 diabetes. tripscan Dollmaker Mattel worked with Breakthrough T1D formerly known the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to design the doll which aims to represent the roughly 304000 kids and teens living with type 1 diabetes in the United States. https://tripscan.biz трипскан вход The doll launched Tuesday at the Breakthrough T1D Children’s Congress a three-day event in Washington that brings in kids and teens living with the condition to meet with lawmakers. This year they’re asking Congress to renew funding for the Special Diabetes Program which was first allocated by Congress in 1997. The program’s current funding ends after September. The advocacy efforts have taken on new urgency this year. With so many deep cuts to federally funded projects in recent months Breakthrough T1D said it’s anxiously watching to see if this funding will be reupped. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease meaning the body mistakenly attacks its own organs and tissues. In this case rough antibodies go after cells in the pancreas that make insulin an essential hormone that helps the body turn food into energy. As a result the body doesn’t make enough of its own insulin so people have to take insulin by injection or though a pump to survive. Type 1 diabetes is typically diagnosed in childhood but can be diagnosed in anyone at any age. It differs from type 2 diabetes in which people are still able to make insulin but their cells stop responding to it. In addition to the insulin pump that attaches to the new Barbie’s waist the chestnut-haired beauty has a continuous glucose monitor on her arm – a button held on by a strip of heart-shaped Barbie-pink tape. Her cell phone displays an app that shows her glucose readings. She also has a light blue purse to hold her supplies and snacks to help her manage her blood sugar throughout the day. It matches her shoes of course.

  9. VictorGek says:

    Rescuers are hailing as a “four-legged hero” a furry Chihuahua whose pacing atop an Alpine rock helped a helicopter crew find its owner who had fallen into a crevasse on a Swiss glacier nearby. трип скан The man who was not identified was exploring the Fee Glacier in southern Switzerland on Friday when he broke through a snow bridge and fell nearly 8 meters about 26 feet according to Air Zermatt a rescue training and transport company. Equipped with a walkie-talkie the man connected with a person nearby who relayed the accident to emergency services. But the exact location was unknown. After about a half-hour search the pacing pooch caught the eye of a rescue team member. https://tripscan.biz трип скан As the crew zeroed on the Chihuahua the hole the man fell into became more visible. Rescuers rappelled down rescued the man and flew him and his canine companion to a hospital. “Imagine if the dog wasn’t there” Air Zermatt spokesman Bruno Kalbermatten said by phone. “I have no idea what would happen to this guy. I think he wouldn’t survive this fall into the crevasse.” On its website the company was effusive: “The dog is a four-legged hero who may have saved his master’s life in a life-threatening situation.”

  10. Barrybob says:

    Job losses But what about the impact of tariffs on job creation? Surprisingly an increase in import taxes has been found to result in slightly more unemployment across countries. kraken An example provided by Irwin at Dartmouth College points to one plausible explanation — and it has to do with the steeper cost of imported goods. “A number of studies have shown on net we lost jobs from the 2018 steel tariffs rather than gained jobs because there are more people employed in the downstream user industries than in the steel industry itself” he said. https://kra34g.cc кракен вход A study by the Federal Reserve Board found that a rise in input costs resulting from US tariff hikes in 2018-19 led to job losses in American manufacturing. The damage from those higher expenses was compounded by retaliatory taxes on US exports more than offsetting a small boost to manufacturing employment from US tariffs — at least so far the 2024 paper said. Retaliation by other countries is indeed another danger of pulling the tariff lever. Higher tariffs on American exports would typically raise their prices for foreign consumers hitting demand for the goods in many cases. When Trump announced new tariffs this year America’s major trading partners were quick to strike back with their own levies although the US then agreed a temporary truce with China and the European Union. Costs of free trade While economists generally agree that free trade has benefited the global economy in recent decades they acknowledge that it comes with certain costs. One is the loss of jobs in communities that are particularly exposed to new competition from foreign manufacturers. That is similar to the impact of technological progress on workers. “Manufacturing jobs as a share of the labor force have come down everywhere. It isn’t a US-specific story” said Gimber at JPMorgan Asset Management pointing to automation. He drew a parallel between helping workers affected by higher imports and what is known as a just transition — the idea that the drastic changes needed to move toward a greener economy should be fair to everyone and minimize harm to workers and communities. In both cases providing workers in impacted industries with new skills or retraining them could be key Gimber said. Another potential cost of free trade is dependency on far-flung manufacturers. That took on new relevance during the pandemic which snarled global supply chains contributing to shortages of products such as face masks and respirators in the US and elsewhere. However economists do not typically see tariffs as a good way to build up domestic manufacturing Fatas at INSEAD said noting that subsidies for specific industries are viewed as a better tool “because they work more directly.” But perhaps the strongest argument in favor of free trade is its importance to maintaining peace between nations. As Gimber’s colleague David Kelly noted in March closer trade relations give countries more to lose in any conflict.

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