DEMOCRATS ... and the NYT are launching their first economy lie campaign to kick off the Midterms Season - positive economic news pokes their article in the eye both at home, and across the globe.

PULL QUOTE: "Foreigners [are] looking for “alternative destinations” to the United States [as per NYT]. Instead, what we see is the rest of the world following the Trump administration’s policy of reprivatizing the economy. In the 12 months through July 2024, foreigners sold a net $151.5 billion of American stocks while purchasing $540.7 billion of Treasury notes and bonds, $306 billion of corporate bonds, and $103.4 billion of agency bonds. Global investors were losing faith in equities issued by the U.S. private sector, and Biden policies were pushing foreigners to buy government debt instead."

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/09/17/breitbart-business-digest-the-dollar-is-still-king/

The urban boom built whole cities almost overnight. Roads went in before drawings were finished. Prefab towers rose in weeks. Places planned for nearly a million people — Lingang near Shanghai, Yujiapu billed as China’s Manhattan — stand looking complete: roads, malls, offices, apartments, schools. Yet they feel frozen mid-build.

The emptiness is not a mystery. Hundreds of millions still live on incomes that cannot buy the new stock. “Build it and they will come” did not hold. The result has been called the largest property bubble the world has seen. The same boom that moved Australian iron ore now carries a downside if it bursts.

Two stories sit side by side: frantic construction and deserted streets. This ballad sits in the space between them.

https://maxine-log.blogspot.com/2026/09/ghost-cities-rising-across-chinese.html