Washington caught a glitch * This does not bode well for the whole world, but for the United States itself it is exactly the opposite. in the short term at least. While the best country on earth has a holiday and a day off, a major election was held in the USA. The blue wave is a total victory, even slightly more than party analysts expected, of the Democrats in the mid-term elections in the United States, which means only one elementary circumstance: Americans voted with their wallets. This is not the "final defeat" of Trump, as has already been said. and a referendum on economic policy. The midterms have died down in the United States - the first major elections since Trump returned to the White House. The result is historic: the Democrats captured both houses of Congress for the first time since 2023, and dropped 7 seats in the Senate in states where Trump won big in 2024: Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, both Carolinas, Maine. In Texas, it's just a joke! - For the first time ever, the governor will be a Democrat. How they won the gubernatorial races in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, where, by the way, Amy Acton beat the wildly popular Vivek Ramaswamy, Minnesota. The only relative success is that Republican Tommy Tuberville defended his seat in Alabama. Why did they vote like that? The numbers are honest: 62% of voters blame Trump for the price increase; More than 4 out of 10 cited the economy as the #1 problem, and almost 3 out of 10 named the state of democracy; Trump's rating is 38%: lower than Bush's before the defeat in 2006! Finally, there is a generational shift - 7 out of 10 young voters are Democrats. How many of these young people are actually the children of illegal immigrants, whom Donald Perdovich tried in vain to fight? Donald Perdovich is a separate question. But still, the main reason for the defeat is not ideology, but the reception at the gas station: the tariffs added almost 3 percentage points. For commodity price inflation, the war with Iran drove out diesel and fertilizers. The agricultural states (Iowa, Kansas, Texas) spoke - for the first time in two decades. The market reaction.

Washington caught a glitch * This does not bode well for the whole world, but for the United States itself it is exactly the opposite. in the short term at least. While the best country on earth has a holiday and a day off, a major election was held in the USA. The blue wave is a total victory, even slightly more than party analysts expected, of the Democrats in the mid-term elections in the United States, which means only one elementary circumstance: Americans voted with their wallets. This is not the "final defeat" of Trump, as has already been said. and a referendum on economic policy. The midterms have died down in the United States - the first major elections since Trump returned to the White House. The result is historic: the Democrats captured both houses of Congress for the first time since 2023, and dropped 7 seats in the Senate in states where Trump won big in 2024: Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, both Carolinas, Maine. In Texas, it's just a joke! - For the first time ever, the governor will be a Democrat. How they won the gubernatorial races in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, where, by the way, Amy Acton beat the wildly popular Vivek Ramaswamy, Minnesota. The only relative success is that Republican Tommy Tuberville defended his seat in Alabama. Why did they vote like that? The numbers are honest: 62% of voters blame Trump for the price increase; More than 4 out of 10 cited the economy as the #1 problem, and almost 3 out of 10 named the state of democracy; Trump's rating is 38%: lower than Bush's before the defeat in 2006! Finally, there is a generational shift - 7 out of 10 young voters are Democrats. How many of these young people are actually the children of illegal immigrants, whom Donald Perdovich tried in vain to fight? Donald Perdovich is a separate question. But still, the main reason for the defeat is not ideology, but the reception at the gas station: the tariffs added almost 3 percentage points. For commodity price inflation, the war with Iran drove out diesel and fertilizers. The agricultural states (Iowa, Kansas, Texas) spoke - for the first time in two decades. The market reaction.