On January 19th, The Daily Poster which is by far the
best news-source reporting on the Biden Administration
headlined “Biden Lifts Health Care
Plan From Insurance Lobbyists” and reported that the
health-care plan that President Joe Biden will be proposing
was written by the lobbyists for the mega-health-insurance
companies and will include no public option and will include
“Nightmare Deductibles And Widespread Claim Denials.”
It’s all explained in their news-report. That’s not the
type of ‘news’ billionaire-owned-and-controlled
‘news’-media provide. Those mainstream media are just
Democratic Party or Republican Party propaganda, because
both Parties are controlled by the fewer-than-a-thousand
U.S. Trade Deficits Increase from Covid
January 19th, 2021
Eric Zuesse
America’s trade deficit (excess of imports minus exports) reached its minimum in February 2020, and since then has increased 84% from February’s -3708, up to November s -6812. America has one of the world’s highest rates of coronavirus-19, or Covid-19, infection, and therefore is less productive and more needy than most countries are, during the coronavirus crisis, and is consequently importing more and producing less. The reverse has generally been the case for the countries that have had good policy-responses to the virus those countries’ economies have either been virtually unharmed by, or else have actually boomed from, this pandemic.
Remarkably, Gallup
doesn’t poll in China on this question. (Nor does
Pew.)
Notably, Trump is more disapproved-of in Europe
than in any other part of the world. (Also, as Pew reported
on 16 December 2020, “In
Europe, more trust Putin than Trump.”)
Those
percentage-changes that we’ve just shown total to a
decline, among all 60 countries, of 121 percentage-points
(-121%), or, almost exactly, a -2% change from the 2019
findings that had been reported in Gallup’s “Rating
World Leaders: 2020”.
Gallup says that “until
all of Gallup’s 2020 fieldwork is complete in a few
months, it is still too early to say that the U.S. will see
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