The Trump/China Truce -- No Skilled Workers Left in Britain -- No More Babies in Greece

BUENOS AIRES — The United States and China called a truce in their trade war on Saturday after President Trump agreed to hold off on new tariffs and President Xi Jinping pledged to increase Chinese purchases of American products. The two also set the stage for more painstaking negotiations to resolve deeply rooted differences over trade.   NYT

If peace and plenty here abide

it's not because we get all snide

with China over trading deals;

some courtesy will grease the wheels

of commerce and keep us supplied

with goods without our wallets fried.

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The U.K.’s planned exit from the European Union in March next year is fueling an exodus of European workers from the U.K.   WSJ

The butcher, baker, candlestick guy,

from Britain now prepare to fly.

They think the ship is going down,

and won't be there to sink and drown.

True Brits all say "Good riddance, mate;

our country likes to be Third Rate."

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The Greek economy no longer looms over Europe as a bailout-dependent, euro-imperiling danger, but the country is only beginning to contend with the next phase of peril: a baby bust that has raised the likelihood of a shrunken, weakened Greece for years to come.   Washington  Post

There aren't any babies in Greece

because money making did cease.

When jobless and broke

the stork is a joke;

so infants just simply decrease.

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