#Tariffs

While Mr Trump’s dreams of a ‘big, beautiful wall’ along the Mexican border have largely failed to materialise, he has relied heavily on deal-making to deliver one of his main
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(Thread on #ElectricityCrisis: 1/n) The more I look at data, the more it seems that electricity crisis in #Pakistan is less to do with excess capacity and more to do
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The National Pork Producers Council is about to hold a conference call on the "devastating financial crisis" hog farmers are facing. Saying "immediate government intervention is required." I'll tweet what
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Limited energy to explore this fully right now - for me this is frustrating, sad, but inevitable news (short thread):"BBC News - Nuclear: Hitachi 'withdraws' from £20bn Wylfa project"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54
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"Let’s imagine a group of politicians — call them Vote Leave — promise we can leave the EU and still have “free trade with minimal bureaucracy”. Let’s imagine that, four
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It needs a decent length article to explain everything that has happened in UK-EU talks in the last few days, and what might come next, and @BBCkatyaadler obliges.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54609383 The funny
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#BeyondHeadlines: There are not-so-obvious global reasons why the #OilMarketCrash is NOT good for #India.Heavy #QE/ currency pressure + Intense #geopolitical tension= #India, importer & friend to all oil producers, in
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#COVID19 Task Force (CTF) Briefing is coming up.https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/1246175591512125442 CTF is starting now. House minority leader (R) Kevin McCarthy is speaking, starting w/the SBA loans & grants. CTF: Prez is highlighting
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QUESTIONS FOR CHANGE How many of us feel helpless with the current state of the UK and the prospect of a no deal exit? The government are playing with us,
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The Illusion of Pressure: by decreasing 120 day waivers to 45 then 30, a useful tool for pressing (more like: reminding) #Iraq to develop its natural gas sector has become
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IDS is spot on. We have a huge stick “London” and we need to use it! Clearing (one area) won’t be moved for 3 reasons;1. London clears around €900bn everyday.
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In 1948, Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform, the Soviet information agency, in retaliation for its "non-aligned" status; deprived of information-processing capacity, the country created its own IT industry from scratch.1/
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Exclusive: Key software to keep goods moving after Brexit won't be ready in time, developers warn 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/key-brexit-software-won-t-be-ready-on-time-developers-warn?sref=yMmXm5Iy The Associat
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Anybody who didn’t understand that the White Nationalist “alt-right” was always just the identity politics left looking for someone to champion *their* identity politics, didn’t read pw or my column
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So I woke up this morning to my phone melting from all the messages about this Bolton article. Having now read the entire article, let's go through the piece which
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A couple of reflections on this tweet by Joanna, which seems to me to distil two key planks of the nationalist case.https://twitter.com/joannaccherry/status/1299217064725487617 The central point made in the article is
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