Time For Suicide Watch? — Andrei Martyanov

 Andrei Martyanov is speaking of Boeing here.

He also says somethings about Russian-European relations.

As I stated for years: Russian-European relations should be reduced economically only to the most basic trade: such as hydrocarbons from Russia, if Europe decides to buy them, plus very few other, mostly high-tech fields, while culturally--new Iron Curtain looks increasingly desirable. European "values" smell with decay and death of a culture, a real one.... 

Traditionalist Russians don't have a high regard for liberal Europe, viewing contemporary liberalism as libertinism.

Reminiscence of the Future
Time For Suicide Watch?
Andrei Martyanov

Rob Crilly — Justin Trudeau tells Donald Trump he will block Boeing contracts over Bombardier tariff row

The first trade war of the Trump administration is with — Canada! Not counting sanctions as trade war, of course. Sanctions are just war by non-military means.

Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, told President Donald Trump on Wednesday he would block his country’s armed forces from buying Boeing aircraft if the US presses ahead with plans to slap import tariffs of 300 percent on Bombardier aeroplanes.

The issue is threatening to ignite a trade war between the US, Canada and the UK, where the Canadian planemaker employs about 4,000 people in Belfast.…

And the UK!

Theresa May, the Prime Minster, responded by saying the US was risking a trade war and warned Boeing that it was jeopardising future deals with the Ministry of Defence to supply aircraft such as its Apache helicopters.

Not sure that DJT has thought this trade thing through.

The Telegraph
Justin Trudeau tells Donald Trump he will block Boeing contracts over Bombardier tariff row

Rob Crilly

Kenneth Thomas — EU goes to WTO over Boeing subsidies

Just as I predicted, the European Union has filed a World Trade Organization complaint against Boeing's new round of subsidies from Washington state totaling $8.7 billion from 2025 to 2040 (h/t @ThomasCafcas). I'll go out on a limb and predict that the EU will win this case. 

Okay, that's not really out on a limb: The WTO found that Boeing's last round of state and local subsidies violates its Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and the facts are exactly the same -- except for the fact that the subsidies have grown from $160 million a year to $543 million a year, more than three times as much. This case is a slam-dunk

Of course, after it loses, it's not like Washington state will comply with the ruling. It's not complying with the last ruling. But it gives us an opportunity to remember that Boeing embodies everything that's wrong with corporate America....

Middle Class Political Economist
EU goes to WTO over Boeing subsidies
Kenneth Thomas | Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis