by Daniel BrouseJuly 29, 2025 China has decisively surpassed the United States in both electric vehicle (EV) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The latest milestone came as Shanghai officially approved robotaxis for commercial operation, with Pony.ai and WeRide among the first companies to receive permits. Pony.ai now stands as the first company authorized to operate […]
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Racing Toward Irrelevance: How U.S. Protectionism, Anti-Science Rhetoric, and Policy Failures Are Fueling China’s Rise in AI and EVs
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A Fiscal Red Flag: U.S. Borrowing Surges by Over $450 Billion in a Single Quarter
During the July–September 2025 quarter, the U.S. Treasury now expects to borrow $1.007 trillion in privately held net marketable debt, based on an assumed end-of-quarter cash balance of $850 billion. This revised estimate marks a dramatic increase—$453 billion more than what was projected just three months earlier in April 2025. This surge in federal borrowing […]
Trump’s Fed Stunt: Distraction, Intimidation, and Economic Ignorance on Full Display
In a chaotic spectacle aimed at diverting attention from his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and mounting allegations of pedophilia, Trump staged a political circus at the construction site of the Federal Reserve, using the visit to generate headlines while avoiding accountability. Trump’s visit began with a rambling, incoherent speech, peppered with contradictory statements about the […]
Global Courts Shift Climate Change from Moral Imperative to Legal Obligation
by Daniel Brouse July 23, 2025 “The ICJ opinion explicitly connects environmental degradation with the erosion of fundamental human rights, including the rights to life, health, food, water, and cultural integrity.” The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s highest judicial body, issued a landmark opinion today (July 23, 2025), declaring that states have clear […]
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The Real Cost of the “One Big Beautiful Bill”: Trillions in Debt, Millions Losing Healthcare, and a Weaker Economy
by Daniel Brouse July 22, 2025 The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its updated score for the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1), revealing the harsh reality behind the rhetoric: the bill will add a staggering $3.394 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade. This makes it the largest deficit-increasing bill […]
Climate-Fueled Insurance and Tax Hikes Are Driving Mortgage Delinquencies
by Daniel BrouseJuly 21, 2025 Mortgage delinquencies are climbing across the United States, with southern states like Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina facing the steepest increases. A major driver? Escrow payments — which cover property taxes and insurance premiums — have surged by 62% nationally over the last five years, a spike fueled largely by […]
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Three Economic Shocks Hitting You This Month: Health, Nutrition, and Education Under Attack
by Daniel Brouse July 19, 2025 Starting this month, three interconnected economic impacts will begin hitting households and communities across the country—especially in rural areas—threatening health, nutrition, and education in ways that will ripple through local economies. 1. Health: Rising Insurance Costs and Rural Hospital ClosuresKey parts of the Affordable Care Act are expiring, with […]
Walk the Poop Before You Talk the Transition
By Daniel Brouse July 18, 2025 Now that many people are finally waking up to the collapse of the climate and social systems, I hope my background as an economist focused on risk management can help illuminate the path forward. Ideally, we would have followed sound risk management decades ago to avoid reaching this crisis […]
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Fiscal Policy in the Chaos: How America’s Current Path Accelerates Economic Collapse
by Daniel BrouseJuly 17, 2025 I’ve been getting a lot of great questions about two nonlinear, dynamic systems: climate collapse and economic collapse. Just as the climate system consists of interconnected subsystems, so too does the world economy. This chapter examines how current U.S. fiscal policy is a critical driver within this chaotic system, accelerating […]
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Tipping Points, Feedback Loops, and the Accelerating Collapse of Earth’s Climate Systems
By Daniel Brouse and Sidd MukherjeeJuly 16, 2025 Introduction Research and development incorporating complex social-ecological feedback loops within a dynamic, non-linear system is profoundly challenging. A small window into this complexity can be seen in the interactions among the Albedo Feedback Loop, Brown Carbon Feedback Loop, Freshwater–AMOC Disruption Loop, Permafrost–Methane Feedback Loop, Amazon Rainforest Dieback […]
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