“It’s a bridge. It’s not the ultimate solution we’re looking for,” said Charlie Radman, a 4th-generation farmer who grows corn & soybeans on the land his family has owned near Randolph, Minnesota, since 1899. “What we really want to have is a little more certainty & not have to rely on these ad hoc payments.”
#Trump #Bailout #farmers #US #economy #tariffs #trade #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession
While rural areas remain conservative bastions, #farmers’ patience is wearing thin. Several of them described the #government #bailout, an echo of similar policies during Trump’s first term, as a welcome stopgap but one that will not solve the #agricultural industry’s problems.
#Trump #US #economy #tariffs #trade #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession
“Maybe this will all come out to be better at the end, but I can tell you right now, it certainly isn’t the case at the moment,” Stehly said.
#Trump announced Monday that his admin would distribute $12 billion in 1-time payments to #farmers, who have suffered from persistently low commodity prices, rising #costs & declining #sales after #China cut off all #agricultural purchases from the #US during the #trade war.
#Bailout #economy #tariffs #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession
#Farmers will get more money from #Trump.
When Trump promised new #tariffs while running for office, Gene Stehly worried that #trade disputes would jeopardize his international #sales of #corn, #soybeans & #wheat.
A little more than a year later, Stehly said his fears have become a reality, & Trump’s latest promise of #FederalAssistance is insufficient to cover #US farmers’ losses.
#economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession
https://apnews.com/article/trump-soybean-farmers-china-trade-tariffs-brazil-9663759ac3c9c7360bd5f23cb84180f0?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-11-Seeding+with+cash
"That framing cuts against the dominant mood on Wall Street, where rate cuts have recently been reflexively welcomed and futures markets are already pricing in a second round of easing in 2026. But Sahm thinks investors should only want more cuts if they’re prepared to cheer for a #recession."
Fortune https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/careful-wish-top-economist-warns-180233161.html
#TrumpRegime #USPolitics #Affordability
The 'forever layoffs' era hits a recession trigger as corporates sack 1.1 million workers through November.
With over 20 states in a #Recession #Inflation climbing and job looses at a record high the #Fed is fighting an uphill battle against #MadKingDonald 's #TrumpEconomics, #TrumpsTariffs #TariffsWar #TariffsareTaxes
"The #DHS🚨will spend nearly $140M to buy the planes, funding that comes from a massive budget increase for immigration enforcement approved by Cong."
As more AG, CONST...🚨workers leave the US, never to return, &🚨Americans are going hungry...
Jobs go unfilled in critical areas of the #economy... The #GDP:⬇️, communities are negatively affected...
#Dystopia #Recession #TrumpRegime #DHS #Deportations #AnarchoCapitalism #Oligarchs #Immigrants #Fascism #Racism #Sadism #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/12/10/dhs-deport-boeing-contract/
"It'll be🚨"mandatory" to hand over the information, & other details -incl email addresses & telephone#s used in the last 5years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members -will also be required."
I'm🚨not willing to hand over personal info about my family & friends to the US admin in violation of GDPR, so if this goes through, I'll not be visiting the US."
-F Coppola, UK
Trump's #economy is cratering...
#Tourism #Recession #Protest #USPol
https://news.sky.com/story/us-plans-to-start-checking-all-tourists-social-media-13481642
While #Capitalism is the main root of the #Polycrisis since the culprit behind it all is the simple fact that we have exceeded the sustainable planetary growth limits of Earth, as already outlined in the 1972 MIT computer model simulation study Limits of Growth, Capitalism is not the whole problem, and 19th century ideas of proletarian revolutions won't solve it. There are other roots that need to get ripped out along with the capitalist world economy. The 20th century showed us that a Soviet style socialist regime is even worse in terms of sustainability, and that our entire Industrial Age is basically unsustainable, which means it _will_ end no matter what we do. No reform or revolution can stop the already ongoing collapse because we're deep in overshoot, the global economy _will_ shrink, many systems are already beginning to unravel, our civilisation won't last for very much longer.
A #SocialistWorldRevolution would help a lot, but it wouldn't be enough. A #GreenWorldRevolution would help a lot, but it wouldn't be enough. A #GreenSocialistWorldRevolution would get us on the best of all possible trajectories, but it would still lead into a slow #decline and eventual #collapse at some point in the next few centuries. A shrinking economy is no fun at all, therefore it is wrong to think of #degrowth as something we can decide to do or not; the economy will shrink no matter what we do, and degrowth is an attempt at achieving a controlled economic contraction instead of an uncontrollable chaotic breakdown.
The real problem us that all of our modern industrial cultures, no matter whether Western or Eastern, rooted in European or Asian thinking, are about to end. Our ways of thinking about the world, about the role and place of humanity within that world, about the might and importance of the human race, are completely out of touch with the real, living planet. We live in landscapes that have been raped and dismembered by our machines since before we were born, we live in a dead world where most of the few remaining living things are humans, and we don't even remember what it feels like to participate in a living ecosystem as an animal among others.
We are part of the ecosystems in which we live, whether we like it or not. And there is no way to keep producing and using our modern technology. I don't say we should just stop using our technology, I say we should steel ourselves and enjoy our time as long as it lasts, because 60 years from now, computers will be something rare and expensive very people ever get to touch, just like they were 60 years ago. The Industrial Age is close to its peak, it's probably already behind us. We're in the plateau phase of our growth now, and we don't know how soon we will drop over the edge, and how steep it will be. We need to be ready.
The Polycrisis is not just a series of crises and catastrophes, that's just how it is presented to us in the media, usually paired with suggestions for technical solutions to each particular problem, but that's not how it works. #ClimateChange escalating into #ClimateChaos , #BiodiversityCollapse aka the #SixthExtinction , #war and #hunger and #Fascism and all those things, #inflation and #recession etc., they are all just symptoms, and the disease is our industrial civilisation itself. We think we can solve everything with machines, but the machines are eating the world, and we are part of the world they're eating. It just doesn't work. The future will have much fewer humans and not very much technological complexity, there's no way to avoid that. There won't be any people building cities on Mars, there will be people moving across the planet on foot and in carts drawn by horses and donkeys, nomadic post-collapse tribes on a broken planet that probably won't support more than a few hundred million humans anymore. If there is any kind of Mad Max warriors riding motorbikes and driving cars and tanks, it won't last for very long, that period will peter out as it runs out of fuel, and the fewer survivors remain, the more likely they are to cooperate instead of killing one another. When there aren't many humans left, you cannot afford to kill anybody who might otherwise help everyone survive a little longer. Even if they can't work very much, they can still think about things and perhaps come up with important ideas.
Today we need to resist the Fascists and oligarchs that are trying to use the chaos for their power grabs, and a who are accelerating the breakdown of the #biosphere as if they weren't part of it. (They're rich and stupid but consider themselves smart, and because they're too important to die, they think their plans will work). Tomorrow we need to cooperate in our struggle to survive the escalating chaos. The future will be ugly, but we can still survive. We might have to #EatTheRich and #BashTheFash though.
US leading indicators signal recession
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/12/us-leading-indicators-signal-recession.html
🚨🚨🚨$12B is insufficient to cover American farmers' financial loses from Trump's #tariffs: "Arkansas farmer: It's a far cry from what we need.
Just the loss🚨in corn this year was >$16B. The loss in soybeans is $11B. Cotton & rice are even bigger losses than that. $12B is not going to make up for this one year."
-Fact Post
#Soybeans #Farmers #Bailout #Economy #Trumpcession #Recession #Protest #USPol
4th Recession In My Life, All Under Republicans
#economy #recession #economicrecession #trumpnomics #maganomics
"US manufacturing employment🚨is plummeting:
US MFG payrolls dropped -18K in Nov, the 2nd-largest decline since Oct 2023.
Also marks the🚨5th monthly decrease this year.
MFG employment has now fallen in 25 of the last 35 months.
Meanwhile, the ISM MFG Employment Index fell to 44.0 pts in Nov, posting its 10th consec monthly contraction.
This has historically been a leading indicator for US MFG #jobs,🚨suggesting further declines ahead."
-Kobeissi L
#Economy #Tariffs #Protest #Recession #USPol
#DonaldTrump and his Administration are the most out of touch government in history. Last we #MadKingDonald said #Affordability was a made up word by Democrats, he claimed he created the greatest economy in history, and his talking head made the rounds on the Sunday talk shows trying toblow smoke up everyone's ass. Now he's creating a Task Force On Food Prices.
Almost half the states are in a #Recession and we are on a verge of a #Depression.
This is while #Trump is building his Golden Palace
US layoffs still trending up
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/12/us-layoffs-still-trending-up.html
US leading economic indicators are🚨still deteriorating: The ratio of US leading to coincident economic inds is down to 0.85🚨-lowest level since 2008.
The LEI tracks fwd-looking data, incl consumer expecs, MFG orders, wkly hrs, +initial jobless claims.
The CEI measures current economic conds in RT, eg nonfarm payrolls.
Historically, in every case where this ratio has declined as sharply as it has now, the #economy is in a #recession.
Non-asset owners: struggling."
-Kobeissi L
#TrumpLies
#USPol
Job searching is fucking hell. It feels almost impossible to find work at all. Even getting a minimum wage job is pretty tough. You got to be lucky to be find that opportunity.
https://www.businessinsider.com/job-market-tough-for-every-generation-layoffs-great-flattening-careers-2025-6
#terriblejobmarket
#jobhuntinghell
#hrmess
#jobmarket
#recession
No jobs report from BLS today (delayed until Dec. 16), but before the shutdown, the pre-Trump / post-Trump comparison in BLS data was very close to pre-Trump / post-Trump comparison in the ADP data.
This week, we got the latest jobs data comparison from ADP, through November:
