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RAND reports that the cumulative wage gap for America's bottom 90% since 1975 is $79 trillion.
Tech layoffs have already passed 100,000 in 2026 as the industry cuts jobs to fund AI.
https://www.techspot.com/news/112493-tech-layoffs-pass-100000-2026-tracker-points-ai.html
61% of Americans said they had to cut back on groceries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/us/politics/americans-groceries-inflation-affordability.html
How China prepared for the new global food crisis, caused by the US war on Iran.
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2026/05/07/china-food-reserves-crisis-war-iran/
For now, your encrypted messages have a lock on them. Until, possibly, the end of this summer.
Every messaging app in Canada would be required to build a second key.
With Bill C-22, the government would hold the copy. The lock you trust would no longer be a lock only you can open. It would be a lock the locksmith was ordered to duplicate.
Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines.
As the supply crisis approaches, the clock in the oil market has begun to reach its critical moments. The oil market is likely to have only about three months before the supply decline crisis begins to seriously worsen.
Alberta separatist group’s controversial voter id app has links to US ambassador, maga influencers and wealthy michigan republicans.
China's semiconductor equipment localization campaign is entering a more demanding phase, shifting from proving that domestic alternatives can work to showing they can meet the reliability, throughput, and yield requirements of production-scale manufacturing.
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260518VL211/equipment-amec-localization-production.html
China added a Germany-sized electricity grid last year.
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/china-added-a-germany-sized-electricity-grid-last-year
The Bolivian people rise up and say 'No' as the US just tried to kidnap former president Evo Morales.
https://thespectaclemag.substack.com/p/the-bolivian-people-rise-up-and-say
@kostikov@zotum.net fuck off fascist
Donald Trump’s Iran war hits Americans with $40bn fuel bill. Extra spending on petrol and diesel exceeds cost of repairing country’s bridges or rebooting air traffic control.
https://www.ft.com/content/32ff9d8d-0103-42f8-8a78-10e2216b8fe2
The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace. A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 which is 10 times the amount added just four years prior.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/world-installing-grid-batteries
42 percent of US adults over 60 think they'll work until they die. Most due to necessity.
China has successfully deepened the global reliance on its supply chain using central planning policies.
China has rapidly expanded in key areas such as critical minerals, electric vehicles, and chemicals, with its trade surplus doubling to $2 trillion. The US Chamber of Commerce warns that the window for countries to respond is closing, as China has transformed from a low-cost manufacturing base into a high-tech-led economic powerhouse.
https://www.ft.com/content/25f8bef0-6f46-4b80-aa8b-7384fb2de44d
U.S. test scores are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’. The drops go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/upshot/test-scores-school-districts-us.html
France’s Digital ID System was hacked by a 15 year old, exposing sensitive data of 19 million citizens.
https://therecord.media/france-investigates-teen-over-national-id-agency-hack
#Capitalism in crisis actively breeds #fascism. When inequality spirals, democracy becomes a polite fiction for managing despair, not delivering justice. The ruling class, terrified of losing control, weaponizes resentment and calls it patriotism. It scapegoats the vulnerable, stokes hatred, and wraps brutality in the flag.
The state becomes a blunt instrument to protect elite interests while the mob is fed blood and lies. This system is showing us exactly what it is.
The US bond market crisis is intensifying. with the 30 year yield now above 5.00% and the 10 year at 4.4%.
Long-term yields climbing to levels above those seen prior to Fed rate cuts shows the Fed is not not contain the long-end of the yield curve.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-yield/news/550018
The Consumer Price Index rose 3.8 percent in April from a year earlier, as increasing energy costs replaced tariffs as the driver of higher prices for Americans.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/12/business/inflation-report-cpi
Spain signed a deal with Chinese battery storage manufacturer Hithium to build its first European gigafactory during Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s visit to China, where he also met with wind power giant Mingyang’s chairman.
Open veins: Drain from Latin America through ecologically unequal exchange.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800926001400?via%3Dihub
Canadians are reeling from debt, data shows, as consumer insolvencies have reached their highest level since the start of 2009.
Consumer insolvencies, a measure that indicates how many Canadians filed for relief under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, reached record highs in the first three months of 2026, according to data from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11843496/consumer-insolvencies-highest-since-2009
The New York Times reports that Americans are being forced into endless debt just to manage rising living costs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/business/consumers-credit-inflation-costs.html
China is freezing export permits for critical minerals for making chips to the U.S. while doubling supply to its own domestic tech firms.
America faces another grocery-price shock.
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/05/10/america-faces-another-grocery-price-shock
Canada's unemployment rate rises to six-month high as full-time jobs drop.
Potato futures soar 700% in less than a month on Iran war speculation.
Fascinating, the U.S. attempt to break China's rare earth magnet monopoly is running into opposition from the refiners in Malaysia, who don't want to produce materials that Israel can use to kill children.
https://thediplomat.com/2026/05/why-an-australia-us-rare-earth-deal-sparked-backlash-in-malaysia
