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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.
hudsonbaycapital.comThat Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
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My current best view:
Trump lets tariff reactions play out for a few weeks. Sees the trend of capitulations and is emboldened to keep going. He fields offers from everyone. Negotiates with no one.
Then brings everyone to MaL in a month or two and puts an offer on the table: Bretton Woods 2.... See more
Chamath Palihapitiyax.comThe Straussian Moment
gwern.netI outlined three enormous challenges for the Digital Age: rising inequality, massive environmental degradation, and the risks arising from major geopolitical change. These daunting challenges could overload our political institutions and provoke a devastating conflict. Such has been the pattern of the past. Surely the prime task of our age is to re
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
United States can’t
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
