But there’s no escaping the deep links to Facebook. The underpinning technology has been created entirely by the company. Its staff put together the Libra Foundation. Most people will experience it on the company’s platforms. “At the heart of our economic challenges with China is its shirking of market economics, so it is troubling that Donald Trump may settle for a government commitment to buy U.S. agriculture as a means to let China off the hook,” said Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon.
Truck drivers still earned, on average, slightly less in 2018 than in 2009, after adjusting for inflation. Executive compensation, by contrast, went up, up and away. Chief executives of companies in the S&P 500 stock index — a list that includes most of the nation’s largest corporations — made an average of .5 million in 2018, increasing by .2 million in the past decade, according to data compiled by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. But Mr. Trump’s Oval Office meeting on Wednesday with the leader, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of Austria, had less to do with sleigh rides and hot chocolate than with their shared appeal to nationalism and determination to crack down on immigration.
A medida que las democracias de la región se vuelven cada vez más precarias, y que sus posibles escenarios de solución parecen cada vez más lejanos, el debate parece también ser cada vez más esquemático y emocional. La fórmula es simple y opera con la misma ciega eficacia en ambos bandos. Basta con invocar la pobreza y acusar al imperialismo estadounidense. Basta con invocar la libertad y acusar al castrocomunismo. A partir de la aceptación de estos presupuestos, no se requiere discernir más. Lo único que hace falta es fervor. Recent polls show that large majorities of women disapprove of his performance.