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Holger Hestermeyer
hhesterm
Yesterday showed me that there is a need for some basic explainers. So let's do this as a morning exercise. There were three questions that stuck in my mind in
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Jason J Hunter (Not a noble Lord)
JJHTweets
1/5 Issues facing the UK with its current trade policy in layman's terms:UK can set its own import tariffs to zero on anything and everything we want to buy from
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Brad Setser
Brad_Setser
Fair summary of the data on the impact of Trump's China tariffs by @bobdavis187 and @JoshZumbrun.1/xhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/china-trade-war-didnt-boost-u-s-manufacturing-might-11603618203 Has some interesting color on polysilicon (
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Faisal Islam
faisalislam
Busy day - another story - supermarkets have conducted an exercise calculating the UK Global Tariff on internal food/ drink supply chain data for trade with EU (obv zero now),
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Anders Corr, Ph.D.
anderscorr
.@JoeBiden's vice-presidential pick, @KamalaHarris, is soft of China. She doesn't support the single most powerful tool in the US economic arsenal: tariffs that penalize China's unfair trade policies to protect
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The Reckoning 💥
sethjlevy
1/ There were effectively three throttles on the economy thwarting Trump’s vision of massive expansion, particularly of the manufacturing sector. One was the Fed holding interest rates artificially high. That’s
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Śrīkānta
shrikanth_krish
Often encountered the question in discussions - "Why are you not a libertarian/classical liberal"?I was one, back in my 20sOutgrew that for a few reasons1. Classical liberalism is predicated on
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Priya Kale
priya_kale
#Thisweekinhistory: The WTO sided with the US in its compliant against the EU over the latter's allegedly discriminatory tariff regime against LATAM/US banana imports. This marked one of the most
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G Schelle
g_schelle
$TSLAQ1/ Short thread on the new Chinese revolver loan agreement included in the latest 10-Q.It seems the loan was established very late in the quarter.Was it planned or did they
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Dan DiMicco
DanRDimicco
1-#JoeBiden Says He’ll Surrender 2 #China On #Trade,Scrap #Tariffs Without Any ConcessionsAfter decades of selling out American workers 2 China,Biden yearns 2 go back 2 the status quo.Asked how he
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Simon Lester
snlester
Kamala Harris during the debates: "I am not a protectionist Democrat. Look, we need to sell our stuff. And that means we need to sell it to people overseas. That
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Graham Hughes 🇪🇺 👊🤠
EveryCountry
Myopic Brexiters see the WTO as some sort of safety net that'll save us from economic collapse once we become the least competitive advanced economy in the world in five
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Chamath Palihapitiya
chamath
The biggest risk/correlation to equity markets over the next decade has nothing to do with interest rates.It will be carbon tariffs and it will blow up every DCF model of
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Lydia DePillis
lydiadepillis
NEW: I got a couple big FOIA requests back recently for correspondence between members of Congress and @USTradeRep about tariff exclusions. One thing jumped out: The lengths to which Polaris,
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David Frum
davidfrum
I don't think it's a coincidence that this group includes no women.https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1321879510669811713 A theme of the Trump years has been *forced choice*. Eg: I favor low taxes and low tariffs.
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Modupe
moviegistR
You pipu wii kwantinu to manage your light like dathttps://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/nassembly-leadership-halts-planned-hike-in-electricity-tariffs/ So the national assembly agrees that cost-reflective tariffs are essential for the Nigeri
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