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Electric Vehicle Mandates and Subsidies in the US

5 Feb 2025 4 minute read 15 comments Perfectionist25

In 2021, former US President Joe Biden made a bold move. He signed legislation to encourage automakers to produce more electric vehicles. After all, he had an ambitious goal that half of all cars sold in the US should be “zero-emission vehicles” by 2...

China plans to impose tariffs on oil imports

4 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Imad Eddine Aris

China is preparing to announce retaliatory measures against the United States after Donald Trump's administration decided to release tariffs on imports from the People's Republic last weekend. According to some news reports on Tuesday morning, China...

Crazy Week in the Markets

4 Feb 2025 7 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

There was a sharp increase last Friday. We were up by about 1% that day, then the news of Trump's tariffs came. Actually, there was no new news, I should say the market woke up to the news. Because the market believed that the tariffs could be postpo...

DeepSeek, an AI Model That Compete With Some of the Top Models in the US

1 Feb 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Perfectionist25

They said they did it at a fraction of the cost. They said the whole training thing cost them $6 million. Companies in the US have spent billions of dollars building the same models. So in its current form, DeepSeek breaks a few big assumptions: Mayb...

Apps, social media and shopping - general differences between USA and China

28 Jan 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR In "How Chinese Apps Like TikTok Hook U.S. Users With Shopping and Entertainment Algorithms," Tiffany Ap and Kinling Lo, writing for Rest of World, explore how Chinese social media platforms such as TikTok, Xiaohongshu, and Lemon8 dominate user...

DeepSeek Panic in Markets

28 Jan 2025 9 minute read 5 comments Perfectionist25

There is a sharp pullback in crypto. The reason is a new major language model coming out of China. In other words, an artificial intelligence model, called DeepSeek. DeepSeek users are amazed by this new model. It is currently ranked number one in th...

Will Trump be able to take Canada?

26 Jan 2025 8 minute read 2 comments Perfectionist25

Trump said, "Canada should be the 51st state," he said, "it is necessary," he talked about the artificial nature of the borders. Is this a statement, will he really do these things? In other words, will he really add Canada, Greenland, and other plac...

Weekly Outlook

19 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

Better-than-expected core inflation in the US is fueling optimism. The indexes performed at their best since the week Trump was elected. There are important developments in geopolitics. Oil made a strong start to the year. Trump 2.0 starts on Monday....

Green Gross Domestic Product (GGDP)

14 Jan 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

In 1929, the U.S. stock market crashed, leading to a global economic collapse, or what we now call the Great Depression. The groundwork for this had been laid years earlier, during the years known as the “Roaring Twenties.” After World War I, U.S. fa...

Weekly Outlook

12 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

On Friday, we saw the Nonfarm Payrolls (NFPA) effect across all risk assets. The US saw much stronger than expected employment growth in December. 256,000 new jobs were added, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. US 10-year and 2-year bond yield...