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Catherine Rampell, an economics editor at The Bulwark and an anchor at MS NOW, published a column Friday questioning the 79-year-old president's priorities after his administration paid out $2 billion in taxpayer funds to arm-twist developers into halting offshore wind projects that were already in the works. "Renewables are hardly Trump's only victim," Rampell wrote. "Our president is basically an economic serial killer, whacking firms left and right." POLL: Do you approve of how President Donald Trump is handling the economy right now? "In addition to the intentional corporate executions - like the deliberate, gleeful 'murders' of these wind projects - there are a great many Trump casualties that look more like man-slaughter: companies the president is killing by accident, as with the recently departed Spirit... <



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This is what Karl Marx said about the monopoly phase of capitalism. Just like in the game of monopoly , the monopoly capitalists buy up all the failing capitalists cheap in downturns. So, the biggest capitalists _want_ economic recession. Corporations also want high unemployment as the competition from unemployed for jobs puts pressure on to lower wages. The stock market rallies when unemployment goes up; and vica versa.< <


Thus, the Republican Party elected officials' policies seek to cause economic downturn : cut Keynesian social spending to reduce effective demand .


So, Republican Trump seeks to cause recession /depression with his tarriff and war policies .


Michael Hudson : Well, a few months ago, Donald Trump came out and said, "Well, you know, the yes, it's true that uh the uh if we uh really block the oil trade and uh try to starve Iran by starving the whole rest of the world, the rest of the world's going to suffer. But the United States is going to suffer less than other countries because our economy is self-sufficient in oil and gas. But it's the problem is that the US economy is not only uh a a gas station with atom bombs as they say about Russia. It's a financialized economy. And if other countries are not able to un balance their payments as a result of7:7:06 uh balance their payments as a result of having to pay much more money for their 7:12 fuel imports and fertilizer imports and all the others, they can't pay their foreign debts. uh as that the global 7:20 south countries have been running up and are falling due and the industries uh of 7:26 private sector industries can not afford uh to pay their credit. There'll be 7:31 defaults all along the financial system and the United States is the most 7:38 financially exposed economy in the world as it was in 1929 uh with the stock 7:44 market crash. And so there's there will be problems with uh the with the United 7:52 States that'll be just as serious as other06 balance their payments as a result of having to pay much more money for their 7:12 fuel imports and fertilizer imports and all the others, they can't pay their foreign debts. uh as that the global 7:20 south countries have been running up and are falling due and the industries uh of 7:26 private sector industries can not afford uh to pay their credit. There'll be 7:31 defaults all along the financial system and the United States is the most 7:38 financially exposed economy in the world as it was in 1929 uh with the stock 7:44 market crash. And so there's there will be problems with uh the with the United 7:52 States that'll be just as serious as otherStates that'll be just as serious as other uh countries are suffering. That's what Donald Trump does not seem to have taken account of. Uh and the Federal Reserve is not much help here. Uh the a lot of the financial community is saying well higher oil prices are going to be inflationary. But the effect of this uh this price increase that's already occurring day after day after day uh as long as the straight of Hermuz is closed by the United States. Well, this is causing a deflation. Uh yes, oil prices are going up, but if the result is unemployment and the production cutbacks in industry and agriculture for the whole economy, that's going to be a huge<



Wow. Yeah, that's uh that's really quite uh uh something. Uh I mean what's what's 10:33 the kind of uh net effect on you know um the serviceability of US debt over the 10:42 kind of medium term from the you know deflationary uh spiral that we 10:48 may be starting to enter into at the moment. there's no problem at all in uh servicing the US debt because unlike a 10:56 lot of other countries the US debt is at least in its own currency and the United 11:02 States can simply keep printing the money to pay the debt and this is not necessarily in inflationary of goods and 11:09 service prices because when the moneycreditors to the government these creditors and bond holders holders don't spend their money on goods and services 11:23 primarily. They spend it on making new loans and buying stocks and bonds and 11:28 and increasing the debt overhead. So the the financial system is very insulated 11:36 from the real economy of production and consumption and is autonomous from it. 11:41 That's what a mainstream economic theory doesn't doesn't get. Uh it the 11:48 mainstream theory is largely designed to as public relations of mythology by the 11:55 financial sector to depict it as playing a productive role in the real economy. 12:01 But finance is independent from production12:45 12:51 12:57 13:03 13:11 13:18 13:23 13:30 in the 17th century by Malik Poselwait and other writers that you know not many people read today and Poselwait and critics of foreign debt said, "Well, uh, these, uh, this foreign debt that we're paying to foreign creditors and even domestic creditors really is a drain on the economy because these creditors don't spend their money on domestic industry or agriculture. They spend their money either on making new loans or they buy luxury real estate especially in London, Paris and other financial c centers and they buy imports. So that most of this growth in US uh private sector consumption is largely luxury imports from Italy and uhmoney eitner on making new loans or they buy luxury real estate 13:18 especially in London, Paris and other financial c centers and they buy 13:23 imports. So that most of this growth in US uh private sector consumption is 13:30 largely luxury imports from Italy and uh England for cars and other countries. Uh 13:36 and th this is uh not recognized if you just make a simplistic simplistic uh uh 13:44 assumptions that uh what is paid to creditors gets recycled into the real 13:49 economy. Yeah. So, so uh in short, the bankers 13:54 are just going to get richer from war yet again. Yes. And if you look at how they <


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June 9, 2023 Anthropology 201 – Cities and Urban Life -4th lecture Chapter 6 titled “Spatial Perspectives: Making Sense of Space”, analyzes and explains the relationship between cities and the geographic environment in which cities are _located_; and their design ,configuration and zones of streets, buildings-structures and parks. As I mentioned previously, I subscribe to the theory that business , jobs and political economics are the main determining factors of the characteristics of a city, including its spatial perspectives, population, etc. Thus , regarding geographic location , the text says at P. 149, “ …the advantage of such sites for stimulating trade is enormous.” Or regarding spatial configuration, at P. 148, “ In the 1920’s, however coincident with rise of the movie industry, Los Angeles began to grow rapidly. As its population surged, the city became a bowl-shaped collection of outlying suburban communities. “ Or, “As Los Angeles, expanded, people settled in the mountains themselves, with streets “ forever ribbing and probing further into [the] perimeter hills, twisting like rising water ever higher, ever deeper into their canyons, and sometimes bursting through to deserts beyond” . Or Houston, located near East Texas oil fields, this city has been booming since the 1950’s. Between 1970 and 2014, its population grew by 83% from 1.2 million to 2.2 million. Because of oil – every major oil company has offices in Houston – and cheap shipping of oil via the Gulf of Mexico, the city has one of the busiest ports in the country and the nation’s largest port in international tonnage. Page 151 of the text says, “environmental, economic and social factors play a role in creating an urban area .” However, when we examine specific examples , economic factors predominate; environmental factors are most influential through economics. The text at P. 443, has an INDEX item “Detroit , Michigan” listing all pages where Detroit is discussed in the book. Also, here is a link to analysis of Detroit’s geographic location : https://detroithistorical.org/sites/default/files/lessonPlans/FiveThemesGeographyFINAL.pdf Maps There is a map of “Percentage of Persons Who Are Black in Detroit, 2010” on P.297 of the text. You have handouts of 2 maps of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn Metropolitan Area. By them you can picture the some of the spatial configurations of those cities. Here are links to sites on Detroit Buildings, Places and Landmarks: https://historicdetroit.org/buildings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Detroit

May 2024 Cities and Urban Life ; Anthropology 201; Lecture 2 I’d say the text’s use of “urbanization “ is synonymous with its use of “growth and development.” Lets say “growth” is defined as population growth – both absolute population and population density. “Development” is increase of businesses and jobs. In general, development changes determine changes in growth. Nationwide in the US (and worldwide), there is a long trend toward an increased percentage of the whole population to live in cities and suburbs . In the 1790 US first census, 5% of the national population was in cities (P. 55 of text). By 1920, more than 50% of the population was in urban areas (P. 60 of text). “ “ Across North America, more than four our out of five of us live in urban places” (P. 2 of the text) From 1870 to 1920 , the US urban population increased from less than 10 million to more than 54 million “ (P. 60 text). The overall US population grew from 38.5 million to 106 million in that time period. (Wikipedia “demographic history of the United States ‘). This was due mainly to immigration from Europe and from rural areas. This population explosion was due primarily to the origin and rapid development of industrial capitalism in the US. I threw you a bit of a curve ball with Test Question 3.3 as I modified the wording from the item 3.3 (P.53 of the text) to focus on Detroit . Lets make that Metropolitan Detroit. In question 1.5 I asked a similar question – Why has Detroit lost population in recent decades ? So , why has Detroit grown and then shrunk ? It will take some class discussion and internet searching to learn of the specific history of Detroit City, Motown . However, most people are already familiar with the origin and development of the US automobile industry at the beginning of the 20th Century as the engine of economic development and population growth. And naturally, The partial “deindustrialization” of Detroit beginning in the early 1950’s through the 1980’s is the main cause of Detroit’s population decline. This is business-economic determinism of the growth and development or shrinking and undevelopment of a city. It was part of a relative scattering of some main points of industrial production from a concentration in the city of Detroit ( and neighboring Dearborn) to the surrounding suburbs. It was a breaking up of the World War II era Arsenal of Democracy. It was a shifting of the location of basic industrial production from not only Detroit , but the Midwest to the South, from the U.S. to other countries, in what gets termed post-industrialism, post-Fordism, industrial restructuring. This was possible because of a revolution in transportation and communication ( just-in-time delivery, world cars, robots, containerization , satellite based communication )created by the microchip-computer-digital scientific and technological revolution the latest since the assembly line invented by Ford, and a general automation revolution. It is mainly business actions that determine changes in cities. But in Detroit there was an added factor of “white flight” from the Black population which began to move out of the confined segregated living in the Southeast section of the city (Black bottom). As Historian Thomas Sugrue teaches : The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit is the first book by historian and Detroit native Thomas J. Sugrue in which he examines the role race, housing, job discrimination, and capital flight played in the decline of Detroit. Sugrue argues that the decline of Detroit began long before the 1967 race riot. Sugrue argues that institutionalized and often legalized racism resulted in sharply limited opportunities for African Americans in Detroit for most of the 20th century. He also argues that the process of deindustrialization, the flight of investment and jobs from the city, began in the 1950s as employers moved to suburban areas and small towns and also introduced new labor-saving technologies. The book has won multiple awards including a Bancroft Prize in 1998.[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_the_Urban_Crisis#:~:text=The%20Origins%20of%20the%20Urban%20Crisis%3A%20Race%20and%20Inequality%20in,in%20the%20decline%20of%20Detroit.) By the 21st Century , all of Michigan, especially Detroit, fell into a “One State Recession”; before that national Great Recession ! ( https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2007/04/11/onestate-recession-hampers-michigan ). And was part of the following national Great Recession caused the Wall Street Crash of 2007-2009 especially as General Motors and Chrysler, major Detroit employers went bankrupt ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reorganization ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Chapter_11_reorganization ). These were major business causes of Detroit’s population further diminution on top of the loss of population that began in the early 1950’s. Population ( and business) loss means tax base loss. This led to Detroit’s City government bankruptcy about ten years ago. This was not good for the spirit of Detroiters. The State takeover was insulting to City government leaders, as the bankruptcy was not due to elected officials mismanaging, but loss of tax base from business and population flight since the early 1950’s. It began long before that urban riot of 1967; it was accelerated by that riot. The several articles I link at the end of this essay are NOT accurate that the economic and population decline of Detroit itself began in 1967 with the riot. And another interesting question is “is Detroit’s shrinking population- that accompanied loss of much manufacturing from Detroit city limits proper beginning in the early 1950’s - all bad ?”. The loss of businesses and jobs has created many social problems of course. And in general, urban population growth is portrayed, on balance , as a positive indication about a city. This is logical in that people are sort of “voting with their feet” in favor of city life over rural life ( or life in another country) by migrating to cities. A main motive for moving from the country to the city is to improve migrants’ material standard of living , participating in the material abundance of capitalism. On the other hand, some of cities’ problems are due to the very density of population ( relative to a periodic thinness of jobs in recessions ) that is a main part of the definition of the city. So, I’ve been thinking maybe Detroit’s much lamented big population loss over that last 70 years may have some upside to it. Mass unemployment leading to mass poverty and therefore the mass misery , crime, social and psychological problems caused by poverty ( in any city) are known to most of us without taking a sociology class. It is “mass” or bigger than in the rural areas, because of the trivial logic that there are more people to be unemployed and poor in cities than in the country. The “promise” of higher standard living that brings people to cities is often not fulfilled. Detroit is a _partial_ capitalist “ghost town” because of business decisions not riots. (“A ghost town or alternatively deserted city or abandoned city is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it (usually industrial or agricultural) has failed or ended for any reason (e.g. a host ore deposit exhausted by metal mining). The town could also have declined due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, prolonged droughts, extreme heat or extreme cold, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, pollution, or nuclear disasters. The term can sometimes refer to cities, towns, and neighbourhoods that are still populated, but significantly less so than in past years; for example, those affected by high levels of unemployment and dereliction.[1)Some ghost towns, especially those that preserve period-specific architecture, have become tourist attractions. Some examples are Bannack, Montana in the United States, Barkerville, British Columbia in Canada, Craco in Italy, Aghdam in Azerbaijan, Kolmanskop in Namibia, Pripyat in Ukraine, Dhanushkodi in India and Fordlândia in Brazil.( ]; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_town; Charles Brown are an example of business economic determinism of changes in a city) Dearborn, Michigan The Detroit adjacent suburb, Dearborn, presents a good example of business determinism in the form of a kind of Company City , augmented form of the classical “ Company town” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town; Flint , Michigan is General Motors City , substantially ghosted, however) ; a city dominate by the Ford Motor Company. It was thoroughly created under the power of the famous Henry Ford. Ford had a lot of influence in Detroit itself as well. He lived in the adjacent suburb of Grosse Pointe, which was high incomed.: “Stimulated by industrial development in Detroit and within its own limits, in 1927 Dearborn was established as a city. Its current borders result from a 1928 consolidation vote that merged Dearborn and neighboring Fordson (previously known as Springwells), which feared being absorbed into expanding Detroit. According to historian James W. Loewen, in his book Sundown Towns (2005), Dearborn discouraged African Americans from settling in the city. In the early 20th century, both whites and African Americans migrated to Detroit for industrial jobs. Over time, some city residents relocated in the suburbs. Many of Dearborn's residents "took pride in the saying, 'The sun never set on a Negro in Dearborn'". According to Orville Hubbard, the segregationist mayor of Dearborn from 1942 to 1978, "as far as he was concerned, it was against the law for a Negro to live in his suburb."[8] Hubbard told the Montgomery Advertiser in the mid-1950s, "Negroes can't get in here. Every time we hear of a Negro moving in, we respond quicker than you do to a fire."[9] The area between Dearborn and Fordson was undeveloped, and still remains so in part. Once farm land, much of this property was bought by Henry Ford for his estate, Fair Lane, and for the Ford Motor Company World Headquarters. Later developments in this corridor were the Ford airport (later converted to the Dearborn Proving Grounds), and other Ford administrative and development facilities. More recent additions are The Henry Ford (a reconstructed historic village and museum), the Henry Ford Centennial Library, the super-regional shopping mall Fairlane Town Center, and the Ford Performing Arts Center. The open land is planted with sunflowers and often with Ford's favorite crop of soybeans. The crops are never harvested. With the growth and achievements of the Arab-American community, they developed and in 2005 opened the Arab American National Museum (AANM), the first museum in the world devoted to Arab-American history and culture. Arab Americans in Dearborn include descendants of Lebanese Christians who immigrated in the early twentieth century to work in the auto industry, as well as more recent Arab immigrants and their descendants from other, primarily Muslim nations.[10] In January 2019, Dearborn Mayor John "Jack" O'Reilly, Jr., terminated the contract of Bill McGraw, new editor of the Dearborn Historian, a city publication. He refused to allow distribution of the Autumn 2018 issue to subscribers. That issue, on the 100th anniversary of Henry Ford's acquisition of the Dearborn Independent newspaper, discussed the influence that Ford exerted in expressing his anti-Semitism. The mayor's suppression of the issue received national publicity.[11][12] The Dearborn Historical Commission held an emergency meeting and passed a resolution calling for the mayor to reverse these actions.[13] The suppressed article was published in DeadlineDetroit and may be read here.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn,_Michigan Charles Brown: In 2022, Ford is still in Dearborn; its headquarters and Ford Rouge Plant. It’s population is close to its peak: Historical population Census Pop. %± 1860 355 — 1870 530 49.3% 1880 410 −22.6% 1900 844 — 1910 911 7.9% 1920 2,470 171.1% 1930 50,358 1,938.8% 1940 63,589 26.3% 1950 94,994 49.4% 1960 112,007 17.9% 1970 104,199 −7.0% 1980 90,660 −13.0% 1990 89,286 −1.5% 2000 97,775 9.5% 2010 98,153 0.4% 2020 109,976 12.0% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn,_Michigan Dearborn is part of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn Metropolitan Statistical Area of the Census Bureau https://censusreporter.org/profiles/31000US19820-detroit-warren-dearborn-mi-metro-area/ -------------------------- https://theweek.com/articles/461968/rise-fall-detroit-timeline http://websites.umich.edu/~ac213/student_projects06/neerhdo/postwar.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Detroit