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Chinese Government Makes Peace with Tech Companies

21 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

You've probably noticed for a while that Chinese tech stocks have been going up very fast. Alibaba, for example, has risen by nearly 50% since the beginning of the year. Chinese stocks have always been very cheap, but they've been crawling for years....

Why Are Gold Bars Flying From London to New York?

20 Feb 2025 4 minute read 1 comment Perfectionist25

Gold completed 2024 with a very serious increase. It is also going very enthusiastically in 2025. There is great physical movement in gold right now. When I say movement, I really mean physical movement. They are smuggling gold from London to New Yor...

US's New Tariffs: A New Act in Trade Wars

18 Feb 2025 3 minute read 1 comment Perfectionist25

After re-establishing his presidency, US President Donald Trump has resumed his protectionist trade policies. The new presidential decree he signed, which will impose additional tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China, directly targets three...

Why Trump Wants to Turn Off the Foreign Aid Tap

9 Feb 2025 4 minute read 6 comments Perfectionist25

USAID is in trouble. If you didn’t know, USAID (United States Agency for International Development) is the foreign aid, humanitarian aid, and development arm of the U.S. government. The fact that the aid it distributes doesn’t add to a country’s debt...

The Reason for Trump's Tariff Madness

7 Feb 2025 4 minute read 3 comments Perfectionist25

On February 1, 2025, US President Donald Trump issued three executive orders imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. A 25 percent tariff on all imports from Mexico and Canada, and a 10 percent tariff on all imports from China. But before we ge...

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...