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And final-assembled USMCA-compliant autos pay an effective 15% rate, up from zero. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Finance , Policy

Simplified: USMCA-compliant autos pay 15% rate up from zero

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But American importers of noncompliant U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement exports already pay a 25% tariff, up from less than 3% before Mr. Trump’s return. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Finance , Policy

Simplified: American importers pay 25% tariff on noncompliant USMCA exports up from less than 3%

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President Trump made his latest tax increases permanent on Friday with the announcement of tariff hikes on imports from countries that didn’t negotiate a deal with the administration since April 2—aka... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Economics , Finance

Simplified: President Trump made tax increases permanent Friday with tariff hikes on imports from non-negotiating countries since April 2

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Mexico got a 90-day reprieve from a new “reciprocal tariff” schedule while negotiations continue. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Economics , Finance

Simplified: Mexico got 90-day reprieve from reciprocal tariff schedule while negotiations continue

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In a country where one in four live below the national poverty line. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Society

Simplified: One in four live below the national poverty line in Nepal.

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It is not clear if these images were real or fabricated, but they have come to symbolize the corruption that many Nepalis say has widened inequality and enriched officials and their relatives. 0.700

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Society , Economics

Simplified: It is not clear if these images were real or fabricated but they symbolize corruption that has widened inequality.

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They were tagged #nepokids, suggesting young people who had profited from their families’ connections, and they were condemned by many Nepalis as out-of-touch in a country where one in four live below... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Society , Economics

Simplified: They were tagged #nepokids suggesting young people profited from family connections and were condemned as out-of-touch.

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There is a widespread sense in Nepal that the affluence of the country’s political class has come at the expense of the wider population. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Society , Economics

Simplified: There is a widespread sense in Nepal that the affluence of the political class has come at the expense of the wider population.

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one in four live below the national poverty line. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economics , Society

Simplified: One in four live below the national poverty line in Nepal.

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Mr. Trump has shown an appetite for trade wars, even with allies, and has promised to penalize India with extra tariffs. 0.900

👤 Mikhail Zygar 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Politics , Economics , Russia , USA , India

Simplified: Trump has shown appetite for trade wars promised to penalize India with extra tariffs

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In the Kremlin’s view, Mr. Trump would never risk that. 0.700

👤 Mikhail Zygar 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Politics , Economics , Russia , USA

Simplified: Kremlin believes Trump would never risk political blowback from oil price spike

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If America were to impose secondary sanctions on countries that continue to buy Russian oil and gas, the first targets would have to be China, India and Turkey. 0.900

👤 Mikhail Zygar 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Politics , Economics , Russia , USA , China , India , Turkey

Simplified: If America imposes secondary sanctions on Russian oil buyers first targets would be China India Turkey

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Any real restrictions, they argue, would lead to a spike in global oil prices, and that would mean higher gasoline prices in the United States and significant political blowback. 0.700

👤 Mikhail Zygar 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Politics , Economics , Russia , USA

Simplified: Real restrictions would lead to spike in global oil prices higher US gasoline prices political blowback

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The prospect of sanctions and tariffs on Russia and those who do business with it doesn’t appear to frighten the Russian elite. 0.800

👤 Mikhail Zygar 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Politics , Economics , Russia

Simplified: Sanctions and tariffs on Russia don't frighten the Russian elite

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They claimed that sanctions would be lifted and even that the president still dreamed of building a Trump Tower in Moscow. 0.600

👤 American businessmen 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Politics , Economics , Russia , USA

Simplified: American businessmen claimed sanctions would be lifted Trump still dreamed of building Trump Tower in Moscow

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After weathering more than three years of sanctions, the Kremlin believes it can handle anything thrown at it — that’s if Mr. Trump even follows through, which many in Moscow doubt. 0.800

👤 Mikhail Zygar 📋 Opinion Essay 🏷️ Politics , Russia , Economics

Simplified: Kremlin believes it can handle anything after three years of sanctions many in Moscow doubt Trump will follow through

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They define the “abundance” they seek as a “state in which there is enough of what we need to create lives better than what we have had,” and they believe it is “important to imagine a just—even a del... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Economics , Social

Simplified: They define abundance as state in which there is enough of what we need to create lives better than what we have had it is important to imagine a just...

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American liberals in positions of governance should commit to deregulation, which the authors believe will unleash the power of the market and of technology to provide cheap and plentiful housing, ene... 0.600

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Politics , Economics

Simplified: American liberals in positions of governance should commit to deregulation authors believe will unleash power of market and technology to provide chea...

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Writing in the aftermath of the crash, the radical cultural critic Mark Fisher diagnosed a phenomenon he called “capitalist realism,” meaning “the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Politics , Economics

Simplified: Mark Fisher diagnosed capitalist realism meaning capitalism is only viable political and economic system impossible to imagine coherent alternative

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The financial crisis of 2008 did not recover the future so much as reveal that its absence was an ideological project. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Article 🏷️ Economics , History

Simplified: Financial crisis of 2008 did not recover the future revealed its absence was an ideological project

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