On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
The National Retail Federation estimates 134 million people will shop this weekend . That's up 6 million from last year. Fifty-seven million know where they plan to go and 77 million are waiting to see where the best offers will come from. That's where the Internet comes in. Twenty seven percent will shop online. So how are companies gearing up for the coming weekend. Toys "R" us is using their FB page to spread the news of their circular so people don't have to wait to find it in the newspapers. Click here to view their Facebook page and become a Fan Find more deals from Toys "R" Us here on their twitter page Happy Shopping!!! An original post by Sociolatte