This leaves Britain as a rare modern case study: a rich country that deliberately raised barriers to trade and cooperation and paid the price.

I’m not convinced yet. Please, would another country with an even bigger GDP deliberately raise barriers to trade and cooperation?

Even if Trump is gone in three years, the MAGA people are still there and so is Vance, Thiel, Musk, and others. That doesn’t sound very reassuring to me.

I don’t think it is “communism” the Trumpists see in Europe. I cannot remember them ever using that word.

I once heard “they will eventually do the right thing … after trying all the wrong options”. I think it was about the US or EU though.

Maybe they believe sponsoring the far-right in Europe will give them enough influence soon enough? That sounds like too much long-term thinking for Trump but Rubio, Vance, and Thiel might go for such a scheme.

This year Rubio got the task to flood the zone with shit. Got it.

Why didn’t the owner raise the price a year ago? Something improved such that now someone is willing to pay the higher price.

Why didn’t the owner raise the price even higher? Because nobody would have rented then. Some kind of negotiation happened.

I’m confused. Rising rents is a symptom of an economic rebound, isn’t it? It shows that more money is flowing there and the people living there are wealthier.

The dark side is that it’s different people because they pushed out the poor ones. That is a different story than “threatens economic rebound” though.

It also shows how speedy this works. Apparently, it takes roughly a year after the EU decided to spend the money until member states actually approach companies to spend the money. One year just for the member states to make a plan and get it approved by the commission. That does not feel like urgency to me.