{"id":23136,"date":"2026-09-28T23:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23136"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:18:37","slug":"donalds-diesel-disaster-lunch-money-with-paul-krugman-and-heather-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23136","title":{"rendered":"Donald&#8217;s Diesel Disaster | Lunch Money with Paul Krugman and Heather Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump&#8217;s trade wars on our allies, his threats to take territory from allies, and his threats to end Canada&#8217;s existence as an independent country\u2026have caused the world to turn away from the US economically and diplomatically. Losing economic cooperation and trade that otherwise would have happened won&#8217;t single-handedly cause a US recession, but is hurting Americans economically and will continue to do so. We&#8217;d be better off without all of this bullshit. Hopefully future administrations can limit the extent that countries wire trade and cooperation away from the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald&amp;apos;s Diesel Disaster | Lunch Money with Paul Krugman and Heather Cox\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1_-Hj8MNd4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s trade wars on our allies, his threats to take territory from allies, and his threats to end Canada&#8217;s existence as an independent country&#8230;have caused the world to turn away from the US economically and diplomatically. Losing economic cooperation and trade that otherwise would have happened won&#8217;t single-handedly cause a US recession, but is hurting Americans economically and will continue to do so. We&#8217;d be better off without all of this bullshit. Hopefully future administrations can limit the extent that countries wire trade and cooperation away from the US. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1_-Hj8MNd4k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[293,221,217,165,272,355,314,592,226,227,170,619],"class_list":["post-23136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-recession","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23137,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23136\/revisions\/23137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}