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  • Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America: The pain coming from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever

    10/10/2025 11:10:52 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 52 replies
    The Economist ^ | 10/09/2025
    Brick by brick, President Donald Trump is building a wall around the world’s largest economy. As America’s tariff barriers on everyone else have gone up, so has the drawbridge, making it harder for migrants to enter the country. The president wants to turn America into a fortress that keeps out foreign incursions. In fact, he is cutting America off from the very goods and talent that helped make its economy the envy of the world. Already the damage is starting to show; once wreaked, it will not easily be reversed. That is not how investors see it. In the six...
  • Zillions of Universes? Or Did Ours Get Lucky?

    10/29/2003 10:22:51 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 196+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 10/29/03 | Dennis Overbye - NYTimes
    CLEVELAND — Cosmology used to be a heartless science, all about dark matter lost in mind-bending abysses and exploding stars. But whenever physicists and astronomers gather, the subject that roils lunch, coffee breaks or renegade cigarette breaks tends to be not dark matter or the fate of the universe. Rather it is about the role and meaning of life in the cosmos. Cosmologists held an unusual debate on the question during a recent conference, "The Future of Cosmology," at Case Western Reserve University here. According to a controversial notion known as the anthropic principle, certain otherwise baffling features of the...