John Ing
John Ing Articles
The American empire was crumbling slowly and then all at once. Its population has gotten older over the last two decades as boomers retire, their economy is sinking and labor market flat with 105 million Americans not working. Now the Iran...
Inflation is back. First Trump’s tariffs drove inflation and now his Iran adventure has created shortages and a global economic crisis, along with diminished missile supplies and a spike in oil prices. Whatever the strategic rationale, the...
The peace talks between Vietnam and the United States took many proposals, rounds of talks and ended with the Paris Peace Accord signed in 1973, nine years later. Huge swings have resulted from on-again, off-again, and then-on talks in the...
No one knows the real cause of the Great Depression. What we do know is that an economic slowdown deteriorated into a recession and then, the Great Crash morphed into the Great Depression of 1929. There were multitude of reasons given,...
Donald Trump pledged to lower prices and raise real incomes, believing that he can make America great again. First, he undermined globalization by utilizing presidential authority and emergency powers, harming businesses and consumers...
Mohammed Ali was known for floating like a butterfly, leading with his left, and then a “bee sting-like” knock-out punch. Similar to how he led with his chin, Mr. Trump stunned the globe on Liberation Day, imposed painful triple-digit...
Even though we live in an uncertain age, markets reached all-time highs. For some, markets are supposed to foretell the future, so investors must be looking across the valley and seeing lotusland. Maybe markets are confident that Trump’s...
On “liberation day” the Trump administration declared economic war imposing the highest tariffs in the world averaging 24 percent, up from 2.5 percent in 2024. Then on the day the reciprocal tariffs were to take effect, he abruptly “paused...
Within weeks of taking office Mr. Trump broke norm after norm, reversed 80 years of postwar American leadership in a roller-coaster ride of chaos, that toppled the long-established global rules-based order. In undermining the foundations...
God took 7 days to make the world. Hitler transformed Germany from a democracy to a violent authoritarian state in only 100 days. Today’s US political climate too is changing as President Trump’s Maganomics remakes America and the world....
