"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

Newt Gingrich welcome to Virginia election twitter Spanberger isn’t in Congress anymore

If imports of kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, and upholstered furniture can threaten national security, then it's hard to think of a product that could not.

Trump: "This is the only country in the world where you announce great numbers & the stock market goes down, bc when you announce great numbers they immediately want to take that success away by raising the interest rates. Why can't you announce great numbers and let them lower the interest rates?"

Hunter Biden: Wait, this was an option?

Jeffries: "As a negotiating tactic, our response to Russ Vought is simple: Get lost."

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

“Kim’s [the Korean industry minister] comment reflects a notable view in Seoul that the $350bn could instead be used to cushion Korean companies harmed by the tariffs.” Gift link:

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Kyle Schwarber vs Shohei Ohtani stats comparison. Who is your NL MVP?

The US has formally lowered tariffs on EU cars from 27.5% to 15%, as agreed under the trade deal.

Lithuania's new social democrat government has been voted in - the second centre-left admin since last yr's election. New PM Inga Ruginiene has pledged to “restore diplomatic relations with China to the same diplomatic level as in other EU countries”.

“My biggest issue is the fact that Substack insists on actively supporting leading far-right activists and propagandists like Christopher Rufo, Curtis Yarvin, and Richard Hanania – not only platforming, but actively promoting them as important thinkers.”

Please, go on. How was Palm Beach in the 90s a different time www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

My hot take on this poll Basically treat this as GOP internal Spanberger and Dems close to magic number of 50% Poll make up was 40% GOP, 36% Dem, 24% Independent 2021 Exit Poll was 36% Dem, 34% GOP, 30% independent Hard to imagine 4% GOP turnout edge this year…

So the government will own the means of production but in a "non-socialist" way because there is no planning involved? That is not exactly reassuring.

"[W]hile the U.S. .. is busy exiting and undermining the liberal international order, the majority of states around the world remain committed to liberalized trade and its other foundational tenets, starting with respect for territorial sovereignty." There's really no such thing as global disorder.

Apple has demanded Brussels scrap its landmark Big Tech legislation, marking a step up in US tech giants’ fight against European oversight.

"President Donald Trump’s furious rhetoric toward Russia is 'a negotiating tactic' intended to pressure the Kremlin, a senior White House official said Wednesday" I'm not an expert poker player or anything, but doesn't it undermine your position when you announce that you are bluffing?

Link to download China's announcement on relinquishing future special treatment as a developing country, circulated in the WTO. CHINA'S POSITION PAPER REGARDING SPECIAL AND DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT IN THE WTO COMMUNICATION FROM CHINA docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages...

China signals that purchases of US soybeans hinge on tariff removal reut.rs/4muA3pv

🇪🇺Car tariffs in 🇺🇸finally down to 15%👍 This takes some pressure off the EU automotive industry. However tariffs were at 2.5% until February The imbalance in the EU-US agreement is still beyond question and needs to be properly addressed (1/2)

Taipei for the first time unilaterally imposed semiconductor export controls on a country, limiting shipments to South Africa for trying to weaken ties with Taiwan — a key demand of Beijing from its formal partners.

A feed of all the Chotiner memes!

“Their accounts paint the picture of someone with a vaguely libertarian bent who despised both major parties and politicians generally (including Trump) but who didn’t engage with politics beyond that. He preferred edgy humor, video games and the message board 4chan”

“Barr’s eponymous series was canceled in 2018 after a tweet of hers described senior Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett as the child of the Muslim Brotherhood and “Planet of the Apes.””

Some good wonky trade law analysis going on in this thread.

The Canada-Indonesia free trade deal (CEPA) has been published (finally) in Canada: www.international.gc.ca/trade-commer...

I'm not convinced this could be implemented effectively or would address the main problems faced by kids online. But people are going ahead with it anyway, so at least maybe we can learn from the failures.

Step 1: Start a dumbass trade war with China (and Brazil). Step 2: Lose Chinese soybean market to Brazil. Step 3: Bail out your nutty right wing buddy Javier Milei. Step 4: Lose soybean market to Milei, too. Steph 5: Make taxpayers pay for your stupidity.

Trump calls anyone who criticizes him "radical Marxists" and "enemies of the people", but if you point out how masked secret policemen grabbing people off the streets with zero accountability are kind of behaving like Nazis, you're inciting violence. Those are the rules.

Live press conference on Canada-Indonesia trade deal www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

fact check: bandaids too

i'd like to thank simon for actually linking to the fucking documents

Two new Section 232 national security investigations of imports are coming: Robotics and Industrial Machinery Personal Protective Equipment, Medical Consumables, and Medical Equipment

TikTok’s US operations are changing hands and will be retraining the algo on US-only data. No word yet on whether a new app is needed. Meanwhile, @skylight.social — the TikTok of the atmosphere — is seeing massive growth this week. 🔗 skylight.social

(6/8) In terms of progressivity, tariffs are far less progressive than the income tax; they harm poor and middle-class Americans more than rich Americans for the simple reason that they fall on consumption, not savings, and savings rates increase with income.

In 2016, JD Vance mused that Trump might be "America's Hitler"

🧵 (1/8) My new working paper with Maurice Obstfeld, “Tariffs as Fiscal Policy”, was just posted today @piie.com. Within, we evaluate the new role that tariffs are playing in the US economy. www.piie.com/publications...

Happy to share that my op-ed in the @financialtimes.com has been published today (with an abridged version in print tomorrow), where I examine Seoul’s response to the recent ICE raid on the Hyundai–LG plant in Georgia and its implications for the stalled trade talks between Seoul and Washington.

SORKIN: You tell me if what Trump wrote sounds like coercion. 'We're gonna test ABC out. Last time I went after them they gave me $16m.' JORDAN: Well, I don't think you can say this is pressure from the govt because ABC put him back on S: But that does sound pressure, right? JJ: Um, maybe some

Can a president use emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs? William Galston examines the legal history and what the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision could mean for executive authority.

The Trump administration is going to pivot from calling Mamdani a communist to hiring him as an advisor.

My latest IELP blog post looks at what Stephen Miran had to say about "Increases in national saving from trade policy." tl;dr - I'm skeptical we will see the large increase in the "supply of loanable funds" that he is hoping for.

Stephen Miran on Tariffs and National Savings

Sharing major news key to WTO reform! Premier Li Qiang of China has just announced that China will no longer have access to Special and Differential Treatment in new WTO Agreements.

I’m very excited for this discussion with @daveckang.bsky.social, @zenobiachan.bsky.social, and Jackie S H Wong. They wrote “What Does China Want?”, the rare academic article that started a social media controversy. Join us! Sep 25 Thu 1–2pm ET quincyinst.org/events/what-...

More state capitalism. Hard to argue against others doing this if you are practicing it too.

Miran v. Miran on r* #EconSky econbrowser.com/archives/202...