You should look through my post history - I'm fairly Anti-American. America is among the most destabilizing and hegemonic powers out there. So, I think we agree here.

China, Cuba, Iran, NK, and more have stated a willingness to work with and engage the U.S. The U.S refuses for multiple reasons. While most of the world is embracing a multipolar and multilateral world, the US is clinging violently onto its hegemonic theology of American Exceptionalism to utterly destabilizing effects.

There's a difference between trying to negotiate with The Borg vs. The Romulans. Try to equate China to Nazis and the Holocaust just shows exactly why there needs to be more engagement and people-to-people exchanges.

>No free citizen should do business with China, they have no voice in their government.

Isolating people is not how those we disagree with should be treated. It just futures an us-vs-them mentality. We should actively engage and work with people with disagree with and learn through cognitive empathy.

The inability for people to work with people they disagree with and instead focus on methods that exclude others is precisely why humanity can not progress beyond tribalism.

How about we work together for the progress of all humanity rather than viewing each other as enemies? Technology should be available to everyone, not just a few based on geopolitical considerations. Humanity needs to move beyond our petty differences of political preferences and really come together. This is what Star Trek and all great Science Fiction was about: the best of humanity. Technology should be used to promote the best of humanity, not used as tool to promote out basis instincts of power and leverage over others.

Competition is always good. I feel the U.S and China are heading towards and All Mankind type of timeline.

>How will the economy respond to a slowing pace of innovation? Or will investments into quantum computing supplant silicon?

This is my big question too - TSMC is barreling towards a future that has a literally dead end at it and I don't know what their plan is. I think the next big thing will be a shift to something like photonics chips - something China is already doing.

>Mass production of the eagerly anticipated 2nm chips is likely by 2025 at HSP’s Baoshan facility in Hsinchu. The 2nm chips are touted as allowing for 10% to 15% faster computing speed and using 25% to 30% less power compared to the company's 3nm silicon.

Basically, this won't even happen for at least 5-10 Years. Since 2nm won't be mass produced until 2025 - assuming everything goes perfectly - which I'm skeptical about given the limits of technology at these scales.

I don't know.... does TSMS have a plan when node shrinks are literally impossible? I get they're are the forefront of this manufacturing process, but what happens when things shift to new fabrication processes because of literally physical limits?

This sin't a log scale nor powers of two... I don't know why you're thinking this...

Real Interest Rate = Nominal Rate - Inflation

The line (green vs. blue) is just a Y=X where Real Interest Rate =0

I'm not sure if you're trolling, or just don't know economics.

Edit: Oh! You mean the scale! Yeah, that doesn't matter from an economics perspective. You just need to look at the percentages. It's to force the 45 Degree line that separates positive real rates from negative real rates.

Why these countries? I'm confused exactly what I'm supposed to take away from this graphic. I mean, it's interesting, but why are so many countries having a negative real interest rate? Would it be possible to group these countries by some common trait?

I just don't know what I'm supposed to take away from this.

The question is when this will impact the labor market. There's reduced spending, but where is the reduce hirings or really - firings?