A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System
The essay explores potential reforms to the global trading system, focusing on tariffs, currency policies, and their economic implications, particularly concerning American manufacturing, trade balances, and national security.
This might seem radical, but life expectancy increased almost 2x in the 20th century (from ~40 years to ~75), so it’s “on trend” that the “compressed 21st” would double it again to 150. Obviously the interventions involved in slowing the actual aging process will be different from those that were needed in the last century to prevent (mostly