Trump Reaches For A 1930 Tariff Law To Hit Canada With 50% Duties - But Not On These Items

Gulf Energy Shock Spreads To Global Plastics As War Sparks Force Majeure Wave Building on our earlier "Global Demand Destruction" note, which mapped how the Gulf energy shock is spreading globally and the immediate effects of rationing, price controls, and fuel shortages, another second-order disruption is quickly emerging: supply chain disruptions in critical plastic feedstocks. Plastics are core to the modern economy, and a troubling new Bloomberg report indicates that several producers of monoethylene glycol (MEG) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) have declared force majeure, as tanker flows through the Strait...

Russian Lab Worker's Abrupt Death Sparks Plague Crisis Concerns; Trump Team "Monitoring Outbreak" With wars in Eastern Europe and the Gulf already sending the world down a dangerous trajectory toward worsening instability ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter (see the global refining crisis), a suspected plague case at a Russian research institute has added a potential public health crisis to that risk landscape. Axios reports that a laboratory worker's death in Siberia's Irkutsk region has prompted medical observation of nearly 200 potential contacts. The Trump administration "is aware, monitoring the outbreak,...

New Women's Athletics Guidelines Crack Down On 'Sexualizing' Camera Angles Authored by Calum Patterson via Dexerto, New broadcasting guidelines have been introduced in Europe to prevent women athletes from being sexualized through camera angles and slow-motion replays. The European Broadcasting Union partnered with European Athletics to release new guidance for women's athletics coverage, with broadcasters urged to focus on performance and technical ability. The guidelines warn against lingering shots of athletes' bodies, low camera angles that capture revealing views, and slow-motion replays that offer little technical or storytelling value. "The sexualization of women athletes...